European Commission
Will GPL die at European administration now that EUPL is available?
For the first time an Open Source Public Licence will have the power of law. The European Union Public Licence (EUPL) has been published the 9 January 2007. The licence is currently translated into the 21 European Union languages, the first ever Open Source licence translated legally and not only “for information” purpose! European Union [...]
First ever Open Source licence translated into 21 EU languages!
European Union Public Licence v1.0 (EUPL) is almost localised in 27 languages! Already 23 are available but not published already. EUPL is a European Commission (EC) Open Source licence aimed to allow (at least) the EC to release Open Source Software on a legally recognised basis. Many countries have already discussing the choice of publishing [...]
Open Source Observatory and Repository meets QualiPSo project
Open Source Observatory and Repository project (OSOR), an European Commission IDABC initiative meets some QualiPSo members. The aim of this meeting was to try to find synergies between two European Commission projects: OSOR that will (i) setup an open source repository for the European Public Administrations, (ii) provide news, guidance, links, contacts concerning Free Libre [...]
European Union Public Licence v.1.0 is available
The European Union Public Licence 1.0 (EUPL v.1.0) was approved by the European Commission on 9 January 2007. This page contains the official versions in English, French and German together with a preamble explaining the purpose of this Open Source Software (OSS) Licence. A study on the compatibility mechanism foreseen in the EUPL v.1.0, has [...]
