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Workshop: Legal aspects of free and open source software
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CONTENTS
An introduction to the most used FOSS license: the GNU GPL license
6
Dr. Eben Moglen, JD and Ian Sullivan,
Columbia Law School
Developing an EU model: the EUPL license
13
Patrice-Emmanuel Schmitz, Developer of the EUPL
A discussion of the different software licensing regimes
30
Avv. Carlo Piana, Lawyer
Legal aspects of free and open source software in procurement:
guidelines developed at the EU level
50
Rishab Ghosh,
UNU-MERIT
Legal aspects of free and open source software in procurement:
national case studies
68
Philippe Laurent, University of Namur
Legal aspects of free and open source software in procurement:
the example of the City of Munich
89
Oliver Altehage, Kirsten Böge & Dr. Jutta Kreyss
Policy Department C: Citizens' Rights and Constitutional Affairs
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LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
AGPL
Affero General Public License
APL
Apache Public License
BSD
Berkeley Software Distribution
EC
European Commission
EIF
European Interoperability framework
EPL
Eclipse Public
Licence
EU
European Union
EUPL
European Union Public Licence
FDL
Free Documentation License
FOSS
Free and/or Open Source Software
FLA
Fiduciary
Licensing Agreement
FLOSS
Free/Libre Open Source Software
FRAND
Fair, Reasonable and Non Discriminatory (licensing terms)
FSF
Free Software Foundation
GCC
GNU C Compiler
GNU
GNU's Not Unix
GPL
GNU General Public License
IMIO
Intercommunale de Mutualisation Informatique et Organisationnelle
IP
Intellectual
Property
ISA
Interoperable Solutions for Administrations (a EC programme,
complementing the previous IDA and IDABC)
ISV
Independent Software Vendor
IT (ICT)
Information (& Communication) Technology
