Joinup's JLA tool compares open licences via SPDX linkage. Features taxonomy for content analysis, compatibility, legal aspects, and includes searchable SPDX identifiers. It is an EC solution.
Legal
Last update: 19/01/2018
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 managed in the field of land management, health, transport, commerce etc.) These data may generally be re-used, interpreted, simplified in some cases or presented in a different way in the framework of scientific or commercial activities. Therefore, ISA has developed a legal instrument or tool that could be used as a template in such case
Content and knowledge management
Last update: 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.) in order to regulate the use of your copyrighted work by these third parties. However, it comes that you are not alone to work on your project: the code and other copyrighted ressources may be provided by contributors (colleagues, employees, contractors, volunteers friends etc.) In such cases it is wise to determines clearly who is the project owner and at which conditions copyright are vested to…
Open Source Software
Last update: 13/02/2024
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.