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Publication Office releases edition 2021 of the EUPL Guidelines
On 30 September, the Publication Office of the European Union has released the 2021 edition of the EUPL Guidelines Compared to the previous version, the new brochure is completely rewritten (shorter)…
NEWSCreated: 15/10/2021
Article from Krzysztof Żok, Faculty of Law - University of Poznań
Krzysztof Żok, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Poland), publishes in the Masaryk University Journal of Law and Technology…
NEWSCreated: 15/10/2021
New JOINUP Compatibility Checker
Presentation of the Compatibility Checker at the Joinup Users’ Group on 19/11/2020 One year ago JOINUP (the EC sharing web site) presented the JLA – Joinup Licensing Assistant https://joinup.ec.europa…
NEWSCreated: 19/11/2020
A look inside the EC Open Source Software Strategy 2020-2023
On October 21st (2020), the European Commission approved and published its Open Source Software Strategy 2020-2023 that focuses on sharing and interoperability. Under the theme ‘’Think Open’’, the…
NEWSCreated: 12/11/2020
Tracking the COVID-19
Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona, well known in open source circles and frequent GitHub contributor, maintains an illustrative list of tools for COVID-19 contact tracing, which are in whole or in part…
NEWSCreated: 07/10/2020
German Lawyer Niklas Plutte shares OSS tips
Under the title « Open Source Software Recht: Große FAQ mit vielen Praxistipps” (in German language) the German lawyer Niklas Plutte (Rechtsanwalt) summarises the main questions related to open source…
NEWSCreated: 13/01/2020
EDPS Inspection Software released under EUPL
The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) has developed open source software tools for the automation of privacy and personal data protection inspections of websites. With the EU data protection…
NEWSCreated: 07/08/2019
OSI updates licence categories
OSI, the Open Source Initiative, categorises licences that are officially “open source” – meaning that OSI declares that such licences (or “licenses” according to the US spelling) are compliant with…
NEWSCreated: 09/04/2019