Re: Judgement about the EUPL
On 02/16/2014 08:34 PM, Sven Bartscher wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Feb 2014 20:07:55 +0100
> Erik Josefsson <erik.hjalmar.josefsson@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 02/16/2014 07:04 PM, Miriam Ruiz wrote:
>>> So it's hard to say that it's not DFSG-free.
>>
>> Is it?
>>
>> Piana writes:
>>
>> "Moreover, being a purportedly strong copyleft license, it would be
>> outright (and both ways) incompatible with the most widely used copyleft
>> license, the GNU GPL, and very likely incompatible with many others.
>> This was well understood by the drafters, who decided to use a clever
>> solution to avoid the EUPL being cut off from software development in
>> combination with a large share of the software publicly available."
>
> From which thread is that? If it's from the discussion about the draft,
> it's most probably outdated.
Sorry, that quote is from the "Compilation of briefing notes" I linked
to in my previous mail:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2014/02/msg00018.html
> The EUPL 1.1 is explicitly compatible with the GPLv2 and some other licenses.
"Don't worry, the check is in the mail."
The EUPL author says EUPL 1.2 will be compatible with GPLv3 (page 29):
Appendix
“Compatible Licences” according to Article 5 EUPL are:
- GNU General Public License (GPL) v. 2, v. 3
- GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL) v. 3
- Open Software License (OSL) v. 2.1, v. 3.0
- Eclipse Public License (EPL) v. 1.0
- Cecill v. 2.0, v. 2.1
- Mozilla Public Licence (MPL) v. 2
- GNU Lesser General Public Licence (LGPL) v. 2.1, v. 3
- Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike v. 3.0 Unported (CC BY
SA 3.0) for works other than software
- European Union Public Licence (EUPL), any version as from v. 1.1
The European Commission may:
- update this Appendix to later versions of the above licences without
producing a new
version of the EUPL.
- extend this Appendix to new licences providing the rights granted in
Article 2 of this
Licence and protecting the covered Source Code from exclusive
appropriation.
If it is compatible with everything, is it then really compatible with
anything?
To me it looks like a division by zero.
//Erik
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