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EUPL #free software

Earlier this week I learned that EUPL "European Union Public Licence" exists. Wikipedia explains:

The European Union Public Licence (EUPL) is a free software licence that was written and approved by the European Commission. The licence is available in 23 official languages of the European Union. All linguistic versions have the same validity. EUPL v1.2 was published in May 2017. Revised documentation for v1.2 was issued in late 2021.

That sounds like a good idea - and I was intrigued by the availability in all the official languagues, it could be fun to read it in Danish.

I clicked on the "Website" link on Wikipedia: interoperable-europe.ec.europa.eu/collection/eupl - and started looking for the text.

And kept looking. Clicking and looking. And looking some more. There is a lot of explanatory text there, but I was not able to locate the actual text of the license.

Using a search engine you'll find eupl.eu, which is ... not official.

But searching some more, I finally found this page: interoperable-europe.ec.europa.eu/collection/eupl/eupl-text-eupl-12 which has links to the actual license texts, in PDF and text formats.

I think this link ought to be easy to find on the Welcome page of EUPL.

Guidelines, Overview matrices, License explanations, Explanations of compability and instructions on how to apply the license are all well and good, but the actual text is arguably more important.

Compare to the page of the GNU General Public License - the text is 0 clicks away, or the Apache license - the text is 1 click away.