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Information about this software's licenses..

This software is distributed under free and open-source software licenses.

These licenses are inter-compatible and compatible with some of the main FOSS licenses (see below).

These licenses have been chosen as they are governed by European states laws and are multi-lingual. .

CeCILL-2.1

The CEA - CNRS - INRIA Logiciel Libre V2.1 license is a public license created by French public scientific establishments (CEA, CNRS, INRIA) governed by French-law.

Both French and English versions of this license are recognised as "authentic", according to article 11.5 of the license.

According to art. 5.3.4 completed by art. 1 of the license, the CeCILL license is compatible with:

  • GPL-2.0-or-later
  • AGPL-3.0-or-later
  • EUPL-1.2
FILES:
- LICENSES/CECILL-1.2.fr.txt: French version of the CeCILL v2.1 license.
- LICENSES/CECILL-1.2.en.txt: English version of the CeCILL v2.1 license.

More info (fr): Site officiel

EUPL-1.2

The European Union Public License V1.2 license is a public license created by the European Commission.

It has been published in the Official Journal of the European Union in the Union's 22 official languages, giving all these versions a legal value in the EU.

The License is governed (according to art. 15):

  • "by the law of the European Union Member State where the Licensor has his seat, resides or has his registered office".
  • "by Belgian law if the Licensor has no seat, residence or registered office inside a European Union Member State".

According to Appendix, the European Commission recognize these licenses as compatible with the EUPL (this list may be updated at their discretion, without making an EUPL update):

  • GPL-2.0-only and GPL-3.0-only
  • AGPL-3.0
  • OSL-2.1 and OSL-3.0
  • EPL-1.0
  • CECILL-2.0 and CECILL-2.1
  • MPL-2.0
  • LGPL-2.1 and LGPL-3.0
  • CC-BY-SA-3.0
  • EUPL-1.1 and EUPL-1.2
  • LiLiQ-R-1.1 and LiLiQ-Rplus-1.1
FILES:
- LICENSES/EUPL-1.2.de.txt: German version of the EUPL v1.2 license
- LICENSES/EUPL-1.2.en.txt: English version of the EUPL v1.2 license
- LICENSES/EUPL-1.2.es.txt: Spanish version of the EUPL v1.2 license
- LICENSES/EUPL-1.2.fr.txt: French version of the EUPL v1.2 license
- LICENSES/EUPL-1.2.pt.txt: Portuguese version of the EUPL v1.2 license

Other versions for the 18 other EU official languages are available here: https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/eupl/eupl-text-eupl-12