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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: 06/11/2018Updated Date: 21/12/2022
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: 06/12/2017Updated Date: 19/01/2018
ISA 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: 06/12/2017Updated Date: 19/01/2018
EUPL - 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: 06/12/2017Updated Date: 29/11/2019
Present the EUPL (PowerPoint presentation)
This short presentation (a MS/.pptx document) provides essential EUPL aspects, in particular on what differentiates it from other open source licences. It can be freely downloaded/adapted/translated -…
CUSTOM PAGECreated: 09/01/2023Updated Date: 09/01/2023
JLA - 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…
CUSTOM PAGECreated: 15/01/2020Updated Date: 19/11/2020
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
CUSTOM PAGECreated: 20/09/2019Updated Date: 15/11/2021
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…
CUSTOM PAGECreated: 10/10/2017Updated Date: 12/11/2020
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…
CUSTOM PAGECreated: 12/06/2015Updated Date: 12/06/2015
How to use the EUPL
CUSTOM PAGECreated: 12/06/2015Updated Date: 24/01/2023
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…
CUSTOM PAGECreated: 12/06/2015Updated Date: 22/12/2020
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…
CUSTOM PAGECreated: 12/06/2015Updated Date: 26/10/2017