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- European Union Public Licence v. 1.2
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- EUPL © the European Union 2007, 2016
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- This European Union Public Licence (the 'EUPL') applies to the Work (as defined
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- Licensed under the EUPL
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- or has expressed by any other means his willingness to license under the EUPL.
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- 1. Definitions
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- In this Licence, the following terms have the following meaning:
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- — 'The Licence': this Licence.
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- The Licensor hereby grants You a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, sublicensable
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- — use the Work in any circumstance and for all usage,
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- to any patents held by the Licensor, to the extent necessary to make use of
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- Compatibility clause: If the Licensee Distributes or Communicates Derivative
- Works or copies thereof based upon both the Work and another work licensed
- under a Compatible Licence, this Distribution or Communication can be done
- under the terms of this Compatible Licence. For the sake of this clause, 'Compatible
- Licence' refers to the licences listed in the appendix attached to this Licence.
- Should the Licensee's obligations under the Compatible Licence conflict with
- his/her obligations under this Licence, the obligations of the Compatible
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- Provision of Source Code: When distributing or communicating copies of the
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- The Work is a work in progress, which is continuously improved by numerous
- Contributors. It is not a finished work and may therefore contain defects
- or 'bugs' inherent to this type of development.
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- For the above reason, the Work is provided under the Licence on an 'as is'
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- limitation merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, absence of defects
- or errors, accuracy, non-infringement of intellectual property rights other
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- However, the Licensor will be liable under statutory product liability laws
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- defining obligations or services consistent with this Licence. However, if
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- and only if You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold each Contributor harmless
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- as the use of the Work, the creation by You of a Derivative Work or the Distribution
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- In case of any Distribution or Communication of the Work by means of electronic
- communication by You (for example, by offering to download the Work from a
- remote location) the distribution channel or media (for example, a website)
- must at least provide to the public the information requested by the applicable
- law regarding the Licensor, the Licence and the way it may be accessible,
- concluded, stored and reproduced by the Licensee.
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- 12. Termination of the Licence
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- The Licence and the rights granted hereunder will terminate automatically
- upon any breach by the Licensee of the terms of the Licence.
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- Such a termination will not terminate the licences of any person who has received
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- in full compliance with the Licence.
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- 13. Miscellaneous
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- Without prejudice of Article 9 above, the Licence represents the complete
- agreement between the Parties as to the Work.
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- If any provision of the Licence is invalid or unenforceable under applicable
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- a whole. Such provision will be construed or reformed so as necessary to make
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- The European Commission may publish other linguistic versions or new versions
- of this Licence or updated versions of the Appendix, so far this is required
- and reasonable, without reducing the scope of the rights granted by the Licence.
- New versions of the Licence will be published with a unique version number.
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- All linguistic versions of this Licence, approved by the European Commission,
- have identical value. Parties can take advantage of the linguistic version
- of their choice.
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- 14. Jurisdiction
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- Without prejudice to specific agreement between parties,
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- — any litigation resulting from the interpretation of this License, arising
- between the European Union institutions, bodies, offices or agencies, as a
- Licensor, and any Licensee, will be subject to the jurisdiction of the Court
- of Justice of the European Union, as laid down in article 272 of the Treaty
- on the Functioning of the European Union,
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- — any litigation arising between other parties and resulting from the interpretation
- of this License, will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the competent
- court where the Licensor resides or conducts its primary business.
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- 15. Applicable Law
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- Without prejudice to specific agreement between parties,
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- — this Licence shall be governed by the law of the European Union Member State
- where the Licensor has his seat, resides or has his registered office,
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- — this licence shall be governed by Belgian law if the Licensor has no seat,
- residence or registered office inside a European Union Member State.
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- Appendix
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- 'Compatible Licences' according to Article 5 EUPL are:
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- — GNU General Public License (GPL) v. 2, v. 3
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- — GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL) v. 3
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- — Open Software License (OSL) v. 2.1, v. 3.0
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- — Eclipse Public License (EPL) v. 1.0
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- — CeCILL v. 2.0, v. 2.1
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- — Mozilla Public Licence (MPL) v. 2
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- — GNU Lesser General Public Licence (LGPL) v. 2.1, v. 3
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- — Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike v. 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) for
- works other than software
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- — European Union Public Licence (EUPL) v. 1.1, v. 1.2
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- — Québec Free and Open-Source Licence — Reciprocity (LiLiQ-R) or Strong Reciprocity
- (LiLiQ-R+).
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- The European Commission may update this Appendix to later versions of the
- above licences without producing a new version of the EUPL, as long as they
- provide the rights granted in Article 2 of this Licence and protect the covered
- Source Code from exclusive appropriation.
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- All other changes or additions to this Appendix require the production of
- a new EUPL version.
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