Dear Patrice-Emmanuel Schmitz, Of course I have heard about you and your personal involvement in the European Public License. So please forgive me if my comments upon an earlier draft of the EUPL have offended you. I hope you understood that my comment was the result of direct solicitation.
From a quick glance at EUPL version 1.1 it now seems that the license has been greatly improved since that first draft I saw. Congratulations! Although FSFE's legal department would require a bit more time for thorough analysis, the license now looks like a Free Software Copyleft license that is expressedly compatible to the old version of the GNU General Public License (GPL). For future improvement it would be good if compatibility to the current version of the GNU GPL were also added. Otherwise version 1.1 seems to have solved the issue that existed with paragraph 13 of version 1.0, and while license proliferation [1] is always a concern, the Compatibility clause in paragraph 5 seems to have addressed it sufficiently through explicit compatibility and the ability to relicense. So from a first look it seems to me that the EUPL is now fit for its intended use as a license catering to the specific political needs of European public administration and it will help to foster growth of the European Free Software ecosystem. I'm sure you'll understand that this is a tentative analysis, pending a more thorough one by the legal departments of our sister organisation and FSFE itself, but maybe this quick response is already helpful. My commendation on the work that has been done on the EUPL, With best regards, Georg Greve [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/License_proliferation -- Georg C. F. Greve <[email protected]> Free Software Foundation Europe (http://fsfeurope.org) President +41 43 500 03 66 ext 400 Still seeking a New Year's Resolution? Visit http://fsfeurope.org/2009
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