On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 13:13 +0000, Schmitz, Patrice-Emmanuel wrote:
Dears,
Wikipedia classifies the European Union Public Licence (EUPL) as GPL compatible.
This seems indeed resulting from the text (article 5 and annexe).
Article 5 seem to clearly* state that you can redistribute the work under the GPL version 2, if you need to link an EUPL 1.0 work with a GPL 2.0 work. Therefore the GPL is satisfied, as you will just use that one license to redistribute the work as a whole.
Note that it is unclear if EUPL can be considered compatible with version 3 of the GPL.
Perhaps the EU needs to release an amendment to their license to include it.
However external links refer to a memo "On the EUPL" by Georg C. F. Greve of the Free Software Foundation, stating:
Just to be precise, that's Free Software Foundation *Europe*, which is not the same entity as the FSF who wrtie and maintain the GPL licenses.
"The last version of the EUPL we were presented with was a copyleft, GPL incompatible Free Software license."
This comment ("On the EUPL") was released in 2005, the EUPL 1.0 has been released in 2007, I guess many things have changed in 2 years.
Simo.
*IANAL