EUPL

European Union Public Licence, Version 1.2 (EUPL)

The EUPL (European Union Public Licence) is a copyleft open-source licence initiated by the European Commission, available in 23 official linguistic versions. It is OSI-certified and recognised by the Free Software Foundation as a free software licence.

Official Licence of the European Union (EC Decision, part of European law). The licence is interoperable (no restrictions on linking in order to facilitate the integration of multiple components), reciprocal (third parties distributing improvements or derivatives must publish and provide back the modified source code), share alike and compatible: no global relicensing permitted, but the source code could be reused in other projects under “similar” copyleft or weakly (moderately) copyleft licenses GPL/AGPL, EPL, LGPL, MPL, OSL, CeCILL, LiLiQ. EUPL covers SaaS / network distribution. EUPL covers “the Work” (software and ancillary data). Original in 23 EU languages. Applicable law and court: licensor seat in EU (or specific additional agreement), otherwise Belgium. Support from the Interoperable Europe Portal community. Free legal support provided.

via Introduction to the EUPL licence and https://eupl.eu/

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