IP Policy

Updated April 4th, 2013, Version 0.1
openETCS is defined as an Open Source Project. To apply Open Source Licenses on any contributions to the project is a basic requirement for both, the funding and the grant of the ITEA2 label by the ITEA2 committee. Thus it is not mandatory but rather compulsory that all contributions to the project (software, proofs, tools, documents et cetera) are licensed under Open Source and/or Open Content Licenses. The details of the openETCS license strategy will be thoroughly examined by a specialized lawyer and a corresponding contractual agreement between the project partners will be concluded within the first working package of the project (during 2012). Unless such examination comes to different recommendations, the following licenses will be applied for all openETCS contributions:

For software contributions: The European Public License (EUPL), Vers. 1.1 (see the license text at: http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/software/page/eupl/licence-eupl). This license was already named in the full project proposal (FPP). For other content (esp. documents): A dual licensing approach applying the European Public License (EUPL), Vers. 1.1 and the Creative-Commons-Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (cc-by-sa) License (see license text at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/).

All contributors agree hereby that their contributions will be licensed under these licenses and they declare that they are unrestrictedly entitled to apply the respective license(s) to their contributions. The final decision about the definite licenses to be used for the openETCS contributions will be taken, after consultation of all project partners, by the openETCS Project Coordination Committee (PCC). The PCC will take the recommendations of the license strategy examination into consideration. The final decision about the license scheme will be made subject of the Project Cooperation Agreement (PCA).