Open Source License Business Perception Report

Re:Open Source License Business Perception Report by tannhaeuser on Thursday March 30, 2017 @04:47AM (#13993836)

I'd like an assessment of the EUPL [1]. IANAL, but supposedly it's an AGPL-like copyleft license adapted to EU (Code Civil-derived) law eg.

- with American and Common Law concepts and terms such as "copyright" translated to concepts meaningful in the EU

- covering "moral rights" (like German UrhG law which has certain rights that you can't transfer at all, such as claiming to be the author of something)

- avoiding overly broad (and hence void) non-liability provisions

- with provision to determine the venue/court to bring cases to.

The EUPL has provisions to integrate EUPL-licensed works into other works and for relicensing under more liberal/non-copyleft licenses, but the cavalier attitude when it comes to copyleft makes it unclear to me whether the EUPL actually is a strong copyleft license (cf what the FSF says about it [2]).

[1]: https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/eupl/og_page/eupl

[2]: https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/eupl/news/new-fsf-stat...

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Re:Open Source License Business Perception Report by richardwhiuk on Thursday March 30, 2017 @04:55AM (#13993872)

Would guess !!! ???? - same provisions as AGPL, but even more niche.

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Re:Open Source License Business Perception Report by dom0 on Thursday March 30, 2017 @10:11AM (#13995460)

The EUPL also has legally binding translations (since they are legally equivalent, is "translation" the technically correct term?) into a lot of languages and a comprehensive compatibility chart.

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Re:Open Source License Business Perception Report by microcolonel on Thursday March 30, 2017 @10:29AM (#13995624)

It would be interesting to draft a wide array of ISC-equivalent licenses in different languages+jurisdictions. If you could make sure licensees reference the right license text for their jurisdiction, then you could even remove some of the duplicate language like the warranty distinction between DIRECT and CONSEQUENTIAL, which are apparently interchangeable in some jurisdictions.

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Re:Open Source License Business Perception Report by prance on Thursday March 30, 2017 @07:07AM (#13994379)

I guess "not applicable" because the op's list is clearly referring to the US only. You'd need a whole new list for those licenses as applicable in the EU or other places.

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