The new
Joinup Licensing Assistant (JLA)
it is a new service offered by the portal JOINUP by the european commission and that complements and enhances the “ licence wizard
previously existing ”. Both provide guidance and help in finding the most appropriate license to liberate and distribute software.
Moreover, are complemented by pre or prior to using the
legal support
in this regard discharge offered by JOINUP in the european context.
Joinup Licensing Assistant offers a common tool which will include up to 348 licenses, better categorization compared with the existing tools, direct links to each license in the list of SPDX (Software Package Data Exchange) and updated information of each licence.
Thanks to the use of
SPDX
(the initiative of fundación LINUX that seeks to standardize the way in which organizations relate to software licences), each license is identified with a full name (as, for example " Public license of the european union 1.2
"and a shorter": EUPL-1.2
").
Finally - and with the aim to further facilitate the búsqueda- stress that licences can be recovered in the light of the selection of the license terms for the users.
The services offered by
JOINUP
is the perfect complement at european level of the proceedings at the national level of the centre of technology transfer. Available Guide of publication and dismissal of assets
, prepared within the scope of the National Scheme of Interoperability and in collaboration with the Red.es Registrar service
through which the AAPP may raise issues relating to free software and the dismissal of their solutions.
More detailed explanation of
JLA
