European Union Public License 1.1 now OSI-approved
The Open Source Initiative (OSI), one of the principal advocacy organisations on open source software, has unanimously approved the European Union Public Licence (EUPL) version 1.1, published by the European Comission, as an open source licence, on March 4th.
This is really great news!
EUPL v 1.1 is available in all official EU languages with all language versions being fully equivalent, it is GPL compatible, and it explicitly addresses the software patent issue. EUPL has been elaborated in adequate consideration of both the European Union Law as well as of the specificity and diversity of Member States Law, so that the license would reliably have the same legal effect in all EU member states.
An approved and accepted F/OSS license issued by a high EU governmental entity builds an atmosphere of trust, and gives – once more – great encouragement and appreciation to the open source community in Europe.
With this in mind – many thanks to all contributors! Great work!
Idle?
While dipping my nose into morning coffee and thinking about how to speed up my neurons, I stumbled over U.S. Patent Nr. 5,498,162
Ok ok – this helped…
Currently I’m heavily working to get out YaNuCa 1.2 next week – there are still a few things to be finetuned.
The Free and Open Source Software Community of Sri Lanka (foss.lk) is hosting the first annual SAHANA Conference on March 24 & 25, 2009 in Colombo/Sri Lanka, which will surely become one of the most important events in the history of this project – and hopefully pathbreaking for its future. Therefore, I see to attend it if somehow possible.
