Archive for april, 2015

CIO angleškega davčnega urada: "odprta koda je izredno stroškovno učinkovita" – joinup.ec.europa.eu

Open source solutions are "massively cost-effective", says Mark Dearnley, the Chief Digital & Information Officer at the UK's tax authority, HMRC. The government department is set to increasingly use such this type of software, he announced at the 'Open Source & Open Standards' conference in London, on 3 April. "Open source is definitively going to change our future." More …

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Evropska komisija predstavila osnutek nove različice odprtokodne licence EUPL – v 1.2

The draft EUPL v1.2 was presented at the European Commission Senior Management meeting as well as at the Cabinet meeting.

After this presentation, a specific point was still under investigation: the possibility of an “opt out” clause regarding the updated list of compatible licences. This list is not only extended to the GPLv3 and AGPLv3, but also to other copyleft licences like the MPL or the LGPL that protect the covered files or the derivatives of the covered works against exclusive appropriation (prohibition of re-licensing the covered files or their derivatives under a proprietary licence) without any ambition to extend their coverage to the whole work or application in which the covered file is integrated or linked.

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