<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-7" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>EU Public Licence: join the debate</strong></span></span></span></span></div> <span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><font size="2">The EU's IDABC Programme has just released the 'EU public licence' (EUPL), a draft open source software license designed to provide legal certainty for software owners and users in the European context. The aim of the EUPL is to encourage public administrations throughout Europe to publish the software applications they develop and that could be used by others.<span class="273465314-21072005"> The draft EUPL is available at:</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><font size="2"><span class="273465314-21072005"></span></font> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><font size="2"><span class="273465314-21072005"><a href="http://europa.eu.int/idabc/en/document/2623/5585#eupl";>http://europa.eu.int/idabc/en/document/2623/5585#eupl</a></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><font size="2">All interested parties are now invited to join the online discussions on the EUPL at the eGovernment Observatory's forum. Comments regarding the principle of a European open source software licence and the specific wording of the draft text are particularly welcome.<br> </font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><font size="2"><br> --<br> </font></p> </span> </body> </html>