Re:The Free Software Foundation is dying
by patemmschmitz on Saturday April 15, 2023 @07:49AM
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True!
Regarding distribution as a service, the EUPL is like the AGPL, but simply written, short and clear. It is copyleft, but allows combined derivatives to be distributed under 10 compatible licences (including MPL, OSL, GPL2 & 3 and AGPL). The European Union (nobel peace prize 2012) is adopting the Interoperable Europe Act, a regulation that will make the EUPL a default licence proposed for all Member States public bodies software as from 2024. And by the way, this new regulation will be supported by a "Interoperable Europe Community" of users.
The purpose is still to define and may not be seen as creating a "European FSF" (Who said bureaucratic?)... However, Sometimes it is better to be supported by solid institutions than by an aging guru...
https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/custom-page/...
Edit: This paper also gives a good overview of the license https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/c15...