You have opted for Open Source Distribution (one of the conditions to be hosted on OSOR!). Do you want to authorise the "appropriation" of your software by third parties? These third parties (i.e...
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You authorise recipients to modify your program... In addition, can they also (re-) distribute it to anyone? Such distribution must be without restriction / discrimination (i.e. "only for non...
Last update: 05/07/2023
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If you have full copyright on your software or if your program includes components that were licensed to you under permissive open source conditions the distribution licence can be freely selected: Do...
Last update: 05/07/2023
Licence wizard
The licence wizard is a guide to help you to find the most appropriate licence to distribute your software. It covers some of the most common situations, without providing the guarantees of a specific...
Last update: 13/03/2024
GPL-2.0 facing Court ruling in Paris
On February 24 2024, the Paris Court of Appeal rendered its (final?) decision in a dispute which since 2011 pitted the small open source company Entre’Ouvert (hereafter EO) against the giant Orange telecom company. This is the conclusion of a 13-year-old dispute, which duration can be explained by an attempt at mediation followed by multiple appeals (first instance, appeal, cassation, new ruling of the court of appeal).Orange had integrated the LASSO tool (software library distributed by EO under GPL-2.0) into its Identity Management Platform (“IDMP”) and had sold the solution to the French…
Open Source Software
Last update: 26/02/2024
Apache and EUPL
In his blog (in Spanish), Javier López Acevedo analyses the compatibility between the EUPL and the more permissive Apache license.Regarding the EUPL, nothing in Apache versions 1.1 and 2.0 prohibits relicensing a larger work under this license. In the case of version 1.1 there are certain requirements - such as the existence of certain prohibitions on the use of the "Apache" brand - but in no case are they considered restrictions added by the EUPL licensor. Specifically, they are inherited from the original Apache license.These requirements therefore do not affect the essential freedoms of the…
LicensingOpen Source Software
Last update: 26/02/2024
Open climate for the world!
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…
Science and technologyOpen Source SoftwareReusable Software Components
Last update: 02/02/2024
Open source user-friendly data protection tool
Announced on January 29, 2024, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) unveiled a website auditing tool as part of the EDPB Support Pool of Experts (SPE) initiative. This tool, available for legal and technical auditors at data protection authorities (DPAs) and controllers and processors, assesses website compliance with legal standards. Operating as Free and Open Source Software under the EUPL 1.2 License, the tool’s source code is downloadable from code.europa.eu.Addressing the need for accessibility, the EDPB designed this tool to simplify enforcement for national DPAs and compliance…
European PoliciesICTOpen Source Software
Last update: 12/01/2024
Top in Estonians E-education under EUPL
Known for the quality of their education system, Estonia provides its online E-education tool SCHOOLABY under the European Union Public Licence (EUPL). Interest of E-education was especially reinforced during the recent COVID pandemics and in case war pushes students away from their schools, as it is unfortunately the case in Ukraine, but even in normal circumstances and for various reasons (illness, trip or expatriation, lack of teachers, break due to sport competition activities etc.) it can be a precious alternative. It ensures constant readiness, also for distance learning with some…
SocialCulture and education+2 topics
Last update: 15/01/2024
Hackathon for a Digital Justice Future
The 'Digital Future of Justice' hackathon, organised by the Council of Europe on November 18-19, 2023, brought together international participants to develop digital solutions aimed at integrating a human rights approach in justice systems. The event in Paris saw 29 participants from various countries collaborating to create tools for automating the indexing of judicial decisions. The hackathon emphasised the use of case law databases, with a notable presentation on the data.europa.eu platform. Norway's team won the competition with their innovative tool for visualising key cases from the…
LegalDigital innovation
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"…
European PoliciesLegal+3 topics
Last update: 06/11/2023
EUPL licensed identity platform
Evolveum presents itself as a globally recognized EU-based organization that was established in 2011 and as a professional open source development team focused on Identity and Access Management solutions. It is the creator and maintainer of its open source identity platform, midPoint. The last release (October 31, 2023) midPoint 4.8, code-named after Marie Skłodowska-Curie, is distributed under the EUPL licence. According to the Evolveum midPoint dataset, the feature set covering identity governance and administration makes midPoint a solution for organizations seeking digital transformation…
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