EUPL - the free/open source software licence of the European Union
The European Public Licence (EUPL), EU's OSS licence, promotes interoperability and 'share alike' use. Compatible with GPL, it offers a clear, multilingual framework for public services and businesses. It is an EC solution.
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Last update: 29/11/2023
Introduction to the EUPL licence
The EUPL is the European Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) licence. It has been created on the initiative of the European Commission. It is now delivered in 23 original linguistic versions and can be...
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Last update: 18/10/2023
EUPL text (EUPL-1.2)
Text of the European Union Public Licence (EUPL). Version 1.2, published in Official Journal of 19 May 2017 and available in 23 official languages of the European Union (SPDX identifier EUPL-1.2)...
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Last update: 12/09/2023
Matrix of EUPL compatible open source licences
This is a global compatibility Matrix between all OSI-approved licenses and the EUPL. This Matrix (July 2011 - updated 2013 & 2017) is open to comments and improvements Contents Disclaimer Definitions...
After three years preparation and discussion, the European ICON weather services model system becomes Open Source, institutions communicated in February 2024.ICON (for ICOsahedral Non-hydrostatic modeling framework) is developed by five European partners:the Swiss Center for Climate Systems Modeling (Federal Office for Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSchweiz and ETH Zurich as C2SM partners), the German Climate Computing Center (DKRZ), the German Weather Service (DWD), the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT)the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M). The ICON model enables efficient…
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Last update: 03/12/2023
After "OSOR turns 15"
The OSOR turns 15 celebration (21 November 2023) gave speakers the opportunity to highlight the role of Digital Commons in implementing a user centric vision: supporting the rule of law, inclusion, transparency, accountability and collaboration. Ultimately four words summarize all that quite well: “People and rights first”!The advent of the digital era served as driving force for the adoption of major EU legal instruments. After initial directives, we welcome regulations in various fields (PSI, Data, GDPR, SDGR, AI and very soon the Interoperable Europe Act).But knowing that the "open"…
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Last update: 22/09/2023
EUPL for CoGhent
Ghent is the capital and largest city of the East Flanders province, and the third largest in the country, exceeded in size only by Brussels and Antwerp. It is a port and university city. Much of the city's medieval architecture remains intact and is remarkably well preserved and restored. It houses three "béguinages", recognized by UNESCO as World Heritage Sites, numerous churches and important museums: the Museum of Fine Arts, with paintings by Hieronymus Bosch,,Peter Paul Rubens and many Flemish masters; the SMAK (City Museum for Contemporary Art), with works of the 20th century, including…
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Last update: 18/09/2023
EUPL vision of the Human Colossus Lab
The THCLab introduces itself as a team of individuals that truly believe in a world, where data flows do not end up in a few data silos. They believe in the opposite, where individuals are in the centre of these flows and they are controlled by them. The decentralization is a next inevitable step towards individuals. To achieve that, we need to build proper tech that operates in a decentralized paradigm, without any central point of control. In their official technical Github account for Human Colossus Foundation efforts, THCLab delivers a “distillation” of the EUPL license as follows: EUPL1…
Based in Grenoble (France) the development team of the French “Ministère de l’Education Nationale” has implemented the French State Design System on the Angular development platform. The (so romantic) software name is “NgxDsfr” Licensed under the European Union Public Licence (EUPL-1.2) the software should help French Administrations (the targeted audience) to speed up application design and benefit from all interfaces to the DSFR (Système de Design de l'État Français) in the framework of Angular. What is Angular? It is a development platform, built using the TypeScript (JavaScript) language…
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Last update: 18/04/2023
EU CAPTCHA under EUPL-1.2
EU CAPTCHA is a test intended to distinguish human from machine input. It prevents the use of bots/machines (e.g. for automated account creation) in the framework of services provided by EU Institutions. Distributed under the EUPL-1.2 licence, EU CAPTCHA is available from the EC Gitlab as an open source API and can therefore be used by everyone (public or private entities) for securing web services through a user friendly and multilingual solution. The API supports three types of CAPTCHA: Alphanumeric CAPTCHA with audio transcription; Image rotation CAPTCHA. Sliding CAPTCHA. Why EU CAPTCHA…
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Last activity: 15/01/2024, 16:43
How could open licensing protect democracy? - The 7 pillars of Wisdom
The OSOR turns 15 celebration (21 November 2023) gave speakers the opportunity to highlight the role of Digital Commons in implementing a user centric vision: supporting the rule of law, inclusion, transparency, accountability and collaboration. Ultimately four words summarize all that quite well: “People and rights first”!The advent of the digital era served as driving force for the adoption of major EU legal instruments. After initial directives, we welcome regulations in various fields (PSI, Data, GDPR, SDGR, AI and very soon the Interoperable Europe Act).But knowing that the "open"…
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Last activity: 18/12/2023, 14:20
How does OSI considers EUPL?
OSI was prompt to recognise the EUPL as “OSI approved license”. It was done as from the EUPL 1.1 and confirmed in 2017 for the EUPL 1.2.OSI revamped their license list (https://opensource.org/licenses/), presenting now 9 possible “categories” (or license metadata - that could be applied to a license to describe it).OSI classifies the EUPL in their first category “INTERNATIONAL”. However, the meaning of it looks still unclear for many. Does it mean that this is the group of licenses that are not “born in the USA” and having at least one version that is not written in English?Another issue is…