Licence
Will GPL die at European administration now that European Union Public Licence (EUPL) is available in 22 languages?
A small disclaimer This post is based on my understanding of legal discussions. As I’m not a lawyer I already ask you to forgive me for the mistakes. It is clear that this post will be updated depending on the input of the readers or my offline discussions with legal experts. Some introduction A few [...]
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 [...]
SAP A1S and Intalio have same strategy: Zero code, Used by Process Analysts, one-click deploy and Free of charge?
SAP is proposing a new product, A1S, targeted to SMEs having a turn over between 25 to 150 millions Euros. The solution”… will deliver the benefits of enterprise SOA under a new “try-run-adapt” model leveraging the Internet and telesales, and can be managed entirely remotely, from day-to-day operations to upgrades…” [1]. Basically nothing new, the [...]
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 [...]
Alfresco, an Open Source license!
A few days ago, I’ve expressed my concern about the attribution clause (not longer available on their website) added to the MPL 1.1 in the Alfresco ECM. Today, Alfresco released the Alfresco 2.0 Community Release of their ECM under the GPL 2. Their branding is now so huge that the attribution clause became obsolete, they [...]
