[FACIL] La "Open Source Initiative" approuve la nouvelle famille de licences du Québec (anglais)

[gabriel.cossette at gmail.com]

"The Open Source Initiative has approved the three open source licences  
written by the government of the Canadian province of Quebec. The Licence  
Libre du Québec (Québec Free and Open-Source Licence, LiliQ) should  
encourage the province's public administrations to share their ICT  
solutions, establishing the government of Quebec as the licence authority.

In 2014 the Quebec government published three licences. One places minimal  
restrictions on the redistribution - similar to the Apache licence, a  
second preserves copyright and adds a disclaimer - similar to the MPL/LGPL  
licence, and the third lets end-users use, study, share (copy), and modify  
the software while retaining those rights - similar to the GPL."

Ref.  
https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/open-source-initiative-approves-quebec-licence

Also, interesting comment from Simon Phipps (former OSI President) on the  
Joinup page:

"It's also worth noting that this approval represents the first use by OSI  
of a new process for approving non-English language licenses. LiLiQ-* are  
only approved in French, with English certified translations available for  
non-French speakers. The new approach allows valid concerns about use of  
local language and law to be addressed without opening the door to  
proliferation of English language licenses."

This led to the creation of the new "International licenses" category.


Gabriel Cossette

Conseiller technique, Architecture d'entreprise
Services partagés Canada / Gouvernement du Canada
gabriel.cossette at canada.ca / Tél. : 418 254-8558

Technical Advisor, Enterprise Architecture
Shared Services Canada / Government of Canada
gabriel.cossette at canada.ca / Tel: 418 254-8558
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