European Union Public Licence (EUPL) by European Union
The European Union Public Licence (EUPL) is designed to provide a legally sound open-source framework recognized across all EU member states, enabling software to be freely used, modified, and shared under harmonized terms. It ensures compatibility with major open-source licences while maintaining compliance with EU law.
EUROPEAN UNION PUBLIC LICENCE v. 1.2
This European Union Public Licence (the ‘EUPL’) applies to the Work (as defined below) which is provided under the terms of this Licence. Any use of the Work, other than as authorised under this Licence is prohibited (to the extent such use is covered by a right of the copyright holder of the Work).
The Work is provided under the terms of this Licence when the Licensor (as defined below) has placed the following notice immediately following the copyright notice for the Work:
Licensed under the EUPL
or has expressed by any other means his willingness to license under the EUPL.
Definitions
In this Licence, the following terms have the following meaning:
‘The Licence’: this Licence.
‘The Original Work’: the work or software distributed or communicated by the Licensor under this Licence, available as Source Code and also as Executable Code as the case may be.
‘Derivative Works’: the works or software that could be created by the Licensee, based upon the Original Work or modifications thereof. This Licence does not define the extent of modification or dependence on the Original Work required in order to classify a work as a Derivative Work; this extent is determined by copyright law applicable in the country mentioned in Article 15.
‘The Work’: the Original Work or its Derivative Works.
‘The Source Code’: the human-readable form of the Work which is the most convenient for people to study and modify.
‘The Executable Code’: any code which has generally been compiled and which is meant to be interpreted by a computer as a program.
‘The Licensor’: the natural or legal person that distributes or communicates the Work under the Licence.
‘Contributor(s)’: any natural or legal person who modifies the Work under the Licence, or otherwise contributes to the creation of a Derivative Work.
‘The Licensee’ or ‘You’: any natural or legal person who makes any usage of the Work under the terms of the Licence.
‘Distribution’ or ‘Communication’: any act of selling, giving, lending, renting, distributing, communicating, transmitting, or otherwise making available, online or offline, copies of the Work or providing access to its essential functionalities at the disposal of any other natural or legal person.
Scope of the rights granted by the Licence
The Licensor hereby grants You a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, sublicensable licence to do the following, for the duration of copyright vested in the Original Work:
use the Work in any circumstance and for all usage,
reproduce the Work,
modify the Work, and make Derivative Works based upon the Work,
communicate to the public, including the right to make available or display the Work or copies thereof to the public and perform publicly, as the case may be, the Work,
distribute the Work or copies thereof,
lend and rent the Work or copies thereof,
sublicense rights in the Work or copies thereof.
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