Plain text EUPL v1.1
Plain text UTF-8 conversion of EUPL v1.1 license.
Original PDFs are available on the EUPL page.
PDFs are converted with pdftotext,
and then reformatted with vim using gq
and :center 80
.
- Use these files without any moderation.
- Pull requests are welcomed.
Style
The style is the following one:
- Two blank lines after the title and the author of the license.
- Two blank lines before a section title.
- Four spaces before a section title.
- One blank line between two paragraphs.
- One space before a bullet point.
- Three space before a new line in a bullet point (in order to be aligned with the text of the first line of the bullet point).
- Blank line before and after lists.
- No blank line between bullet points, except for the "definitions" and "obligations of the licensee".
- Depending on the languages lists are
*
for bullet points, and -
(hyphen) for em-dashes.
- The copyright sign is converted to
(c)
.
- Typographic apostrophes are converted to simple
'
.
- Typographic quotes are converted to simple
"
.
- Appendix becomes a normal section without any number. (
====
is removed)
Footnote about "EUPL" is added to the definition list.
Why should I use the EUPLv1.1?
The EUPL has been designed for European Union member country. It is just a
European version of the GPLv2 and can be converted to GPLv2 or CeCILL-C.
It has been approved by the OSI and the FSF.
There are multiple reason to use the EUPLv1.1:
- You are a company based in the European Union, and you want full European
copyright protection for your software.
- You want to show your pride of being an European Citizen.
- You want to distribute an open source software in Europe.
- You want a legal license in your local language (which is not English).
- You want to be protected by the lack of software patent in the European Union.
- You want a copyleft license
approved by the FSF
and the OSI.
Why shouldn't I use the EUPLv1.1?
- You don't want copyleft, and you want a permissive license.
- You want tivoization protection.
- You want an
GNU AGPL-like
license.
- Your company is not based in the European Union.
- You want to write closed-source software.
I don't want my software to be ruled by belgian law!
The section 15 specifies that the Belgian law overrules any European law, in
case there would be a conflict between local laws.
To be clear, European Countries laws are very uniform few conflict might arise.
Moreover, Belgium has to enact European directives. Therefore, this is would be
a legal edge case. Don't worry about that.
Why isn't there my language?
This is a manual process. I reformatted them, and eyeballed them to make sure
it was right.
So of course I only did languages in which I have notions. If you want to add
your language, please do so by emailing me or opening a pull request.