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.
LegalReusable Software Components+3 topics
Last update: 17/04/2024
A look into… GÉANT
GÉANT results from the collaboration of European National Research and Education Networks (NRENs). The project aims to deliver an information ecosystem of infrastructure and services to advance research, education, and innovation on a global scale.The GÉANT Software Tools form a technology stack which supports the full software development life-cycle from requirements management via issue/task management to source code repository and through continuous integration and deployment service to binaries repository and production deployment. The stack includes Jira, Bamboo, Bitbucket, Sonarqube…
European PoliciesLicensingOpen Source Software
Last update: 06/04/2024
Ukraine publishes DIIA under EUPL
After a long announcement period, the Ukrainian government makes it's e-governance application Diia open-sourced under the EUPL-1.2 license. Diia is an alternative solution to the BankID and electronic government services. 42 repositories are available for code review and contribution.Diia proposes a mobile application providing access to the most important digital documents and government services, which Ukrainian citizens may now keep in their pocket.The most obvious benefit is the convenience of such a platform. Citizens can have many documents on their smartphones at once, without concern…
Demography and populationeGovernment+4 topics
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…