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Open Source Licenses: EUPL got OSI Approval, but Still Doesn’t Show Up

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Roberto Galoppini
on March 20, 2009
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The Open Source Initiative board, after visiting the European Commission, has finally approved the European Union Public license on the 4th of March.

The EUPL 1.1 - the revisited version of the EUPL 1.0 including recommended modifications resulting from the OSI discussion - is supported by  the EUPL community. Stakeholders can share opinions and pose questions through the EUPL forums and blog.

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Open Source Adoption Bottom-up, Eurostat goes EUPL, Spanish Open Source, Greek Municipalties’ Technological Club: European Open Source links 20-12-2008

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Roberto Galoppini
on December 20, 2008
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BE: Open source adoption is often bottom-up, Ph.D study says - Kris Vein, postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Management Information Systems of the University of Antwerp, says that the adoption of open source frequently seems to be a bottum-up process, but recommendations from IT firms and consultants are also important sources of information. Organisations should not base their open source policies on those of other institutions because each has its own contexts. Open source software selection has still to be taken seriously.

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I am a specialist in Commercial Open Source Software, consulting on marketing and business strategy. I help organizations to build new business strategies for the open source economy. I speak widely on open source and open standards throughout the world.