Patrice-Emmanuel Schmitz

AGID Guidelines

16/05/2019

AGID (the Government Agency for Digital Italy) had updated, dated May 9. 2019, its guidelines on the procurement and reuse of software by public administrations (“Linee guida su acquisizione e riuso…

EUPL re-categorised

09/04/2019

OSI, the Open Source Initiative, categorises licences that are officially “open source” – meaning that OSI declares that such licences (or “licenses” according to the US spelling) are compliant with…

Tracking light pollution

13/03/2019

Located in Postdam (Germany), the GFZ is the German Research Centre for Geosciences. GFZ assigns Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) to datasets. These datasets are archived by and published through GFZ…

Printing centralisation

27/02/2019

The printing, sending and delivery of local copies represents important costs for municipalities. Five important Dutch cities known as the “G5” (Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Utrecht and Eindhoven)…

Energy optimisation

27/02/2019

After the EU28 countries and the Balkans, it is now Belarus that benefits from the DISPA-Set Energy optimisation model, distributed under the European Union Public Licence (EUPL-1.2). The software,…

Spain Standardisation

04/02/2019

Spain publishes the first versions of two of the components of the CSV Suite, included under the INSIDE system umbrella, both under EUPL licence, on the Portal of Electronic Administration (Portal de…

Gov Software in Slovakia

30/01/2019

The State IT Act (Act on Information Technologies in Public Administration) goes to the Slovakian Parliament for vote. It was endorsed by the Slovak government at the end of 2018 and is now at the…

Flemish region software

30/01/2019

In the framework of its project ”Gebouwen and Adressenregister”, the Flemish Region’s Information Agency develops on Github and licenses under the European Union Public Licence (EUPL v1.2) a series of…

EUPL for Italian software

21/01/2019

ANAC, the Italian anti-corruption authority, announced on 15 Jan 2019 that “Whistleblower”, its software for the management of reporting of illicit behaviour is now available under the EUPL v1.2 open…

EUPL for state software

14/01/2019

While open source software like OpenSSL appears to be the cornerstone of safe transactions on the Internet, used by millions of websites and organisations; while so many commercial companies and…

Paris Open Source Summit 2018

13/12/2018

During the recent Paris Open Source Summit on 5 December 2018, Joinup presented the draft for a new licensing assistant. More than 350 different licences are proposed to developers and users, some of…