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CyberReadyGame
About the CyberReadyGame The "CyberReadyGame" is an awareness-raising board game developed for the European Commission's Directorate of IT Security, part of the Directorate-General for Informatics (DG…
SOLUTIONCreated: 27/12/2018
Joinup Licensing Assistant
As from June 2019, Joinup proposes a new solution: the JLA, a unique tool allowing everyone to compare and select open licences based on their content. The JLA is linked to SPDX (for Software Package…
SOLUTIONCreated: 06/11/2018
ISA Open Metadata Licence
Licensing copyrighted material is not only about software or closely related documentation: it may cover other assets, like specifications, data (i.e. resulting from statistics or from any big file…
SOLUTIONCreated: 06/12/2017ISA Contributor Agreement
When setting up a project that will be distributed to third parties, it is wise to select from scratch the convenient outbound licence (for example the EUPL licence, or the Apache, or the BSD-3 etc.)…
SOLUTIONCreated: 06/12/2017EUPL - the free/open source software licence of the European Union
Created in 2007, OSI approved in 2009 and updated in 2017 (v1.2), the EUPL is a legal interoperability solution that is proposed for use by software licensors across the EU (and abroad, as the case…
SOLUTIONCreated: 06/12/2017JLA - Joinup Licensing Assistant (Select and compare open licences)
Enter the Joinup Licensing Assistant (JLA) This is a an innovative tool in order to: Select open licences based on their content Obtain licence information from the SPDX repository (unique identifier…
Documentation repository (Guidelines, Documents FAQs)
Table of content below details available documents: guidelines, notes about licence compatibility, a matrix of EUPL compatible licences, EUPL FAQs and a documentation directory
Joinup Legal support (questions will be answered)
For any question related to licensing or Joinup legal support, please fill the CONTACT FORM (selecting "legal issue" in the Category field). The legal support will answer you. Please note that the aim…
FAQ
Which project can be hosted on Joinup?
My program licensed under the EUPL uses components licensed under the GPL!
Can I modify the EUPL?
Are Joinup hosted projects “non…
How to use the EUPL
Frequently asked questions on the European Union Public License Contents What is the EUPL? How to use EUPL? Is the software licensed under the EUPL “Open Source” and "Free Software"? Where can I get…
Impact of the EUPL
The EUPL is the licence of choice for distributing software from the European institutions or agencies and from several Member States. The EUPL has made such distribution possible on a much wider…
Documentation directory: Articles on EUPL
General purpose guidelines Thierry Aimé and al., A practical guide to using free software in the public sector (in English and French) Thierry Aimé and al., A practical guide to using free software in…