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| 12 | +1.Definitions |
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| 93 | +6.Chain of Authorship |
| 94 | +The original Licensor warrants that the copyright in the Original Work granted hereunder is owned by him/her or |
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| 110 | +8.Disclaimer of Liability |
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| 133 | +11.Information to the public |
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| 139 | +12.Termination of the Licence |
| 140 | +The Licence and the rights granted hereunder will terminate automatically upon any breach by the Licensee of the terms |
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| 145 | +13.Miscellaneous |
| 146 | +Without prejudice of Article 9 above, the Licence represents the complete agreement between the Parties as to the |
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| 150 | +and enforceable. |
| 151 | +The European Commission may publish other linguistic versions or new versions of this Licence or updated versions of |
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| 157 | +14.Jurisdiction |
| 158 | +Without prejudice to specific agreement between parties, |
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| 165 | +15.Applicable Law |
| 166 | +Without prejudice to specific agreement between parties, |
| 167 | +— this Licence shall be governed by the law of the European Union Member State where the Licensor has his seat, |
| 168 | +resides or has his registered office, |
| 169 | +— this licence shall be governed by Belgian law if the Licensor has no seat, residence or registered office inside |
| 170 | +a European Union Member State. |
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| 172 | + |
| 173 | + Appendix |
| 174 | + |
| 175 | +‘Compatible Licences’ according to Article 5 EUPL are: |
| 176 | +— GNU General Public License (GPL) v. 2, v. 3 |
| 177 | +— GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL) v. 3 |
| 178 | +— Open Software License (OSL) v. 2.1, v. 3.0 |
| 179 | +— Eclipse Public License (EPL) v. 1.0 |
| 180 | +— CeCILL v. 2.0, v. 2.1 |
| 181 | +— Mozilla Public Licence (MPL) v. 2 |
| 182 | +— GNU Lesser General Public Licence (LGPL) v. 2.1, v. 3 |
| 183 | +— Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike v. 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) for works other than software |
| 184 | +— European Union Public Licence (EUPL) v. 1.1, v. 1.2 |
| 185 | +— Québec Free and Open-Source Licence — Reciprocity (LiLiQ-R) or Strong Reciprocity (LiLiQ-R+) |
| 186 | + |
| 187 | +The European Commission may update this Appendix to later versions of the above licences without producing |
| 188 | +a new version of the EUPL, as long as they provide the rights granted in Article 2 of this Licence and protect the |
| 189 | +covered Source Code from exclusive appropriation. |
| 190 | +All other changes or additions to this Appendix require the production of a new EUPL version. |
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