On the EUPL

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Fri Feb 22 15:07:25 UTC 2008


On 22/02/2008, Schmitz, Patrice-Emmanuel
<patrice-emmanuel.schmitz at be.unisys.com> wrote:

> Wikipedia classifies the European Union Public Licence (EUPL) as GPL compatible.
> This seems indeed resulting from the text (article 5 and annexe).
> However external links refer to a memo "On the EUPL" by Georg C. F. Greve of the Free Software Foundation, stating:   "The last version of the EUPL we were presented with was a copyleft,
> GPL incompatible Free Software license."
> Could you please clarify and update?


Interesting it's not listed on http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/
- which is the usual place people would go to check if a given licence
is GPL-compatible.


- d.



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