EUROPEAN UNION PUBLIC LICENCE v. 1.2

EUPL © the European Union 2007, 2016

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- ‘The Original Work’: the work or software distributed or communicated 
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- ‘The Executable Code’: any code which has generally been compiled and 
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lending, renting, distributing, communicating, transmitting, or 
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as the case may be, the Work,

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- sublicense rights in the Work or copies thereof.

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For the sake of this clause, ‘Compatible Licence’ refers to the 
licences listed in the appendix attached to this Licence. Should the 
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For the above reason, the Work is provided under the Licence on an ‘as 
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the way it may be accessible, concluded, stored and reproduced by the 
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12. Termination of the Licence

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Such a termination will not terminate the licences of any person who 
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13. Miscellaneous

Without prejudice of Article 9 above, the Licence represents the 
complete agreement between the Parties as to the Work.

If any provision of the Licence is invalid or unenforceable under 
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as necessary to make it valid and enforceable.

The European Commission may publish other linguistic versions or new 
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this is required and reasonable, without reducing the scope of the 
rights granted by the Licence. New versions of the Licence will be 
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All linguistic versions of this Licence, approved by the European 
Commission, have identical value. Parties can take advantage of the 
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14. Jurisdiction

Without prejudice to specific agreement between parties,

- 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,

- 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.

15. Applicable Law

Without prejudice to specific agreement between parties,

- 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,

- this licence shall be governed by Belgian law if the Licensor has no 
seat, residence or registered office inside a European Union Member 
State.

Appendix

‘Compatible Licences’ according to Article 5 EUPL are:

- GNU General Public License (GPL) v. 2, v. 3

- GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL) v. 3

- Open Software License (OSL) v. 2.1, v. 3.0

- Eclipse Public License (EPL) v. 1.0

- CeCILL v. 2.0, v. 2.1

- Mozilla Public Licence (MPL) v. 2

- GNU Lesser General Public Licence (LGPL) v. 2.1, v. 3

- Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike v. 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 
3.0) for works other than software

- European Union Public Licence (EUPL) v. 1.1, v. 1.2

- Québec Free and Open-Source Licence — Reciprocity (LiLiQ-R) or Strong 
Reciprocity (LiLiQ-R+).

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.

All other changes or additions to this Appendix require the production 
of a new EUPL version.
