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If you’re using this in a CLI tool you’re writing in Python you might be using the library rich anyway, which provides this functionality as well including some extra features.
As the European Commission claims on their site, as one of the reasons they chose to create a new license instead of relying on those already available:
> The licence should have equal legal value in many languages.
In addition, the EUPL is not any license text some (from a legal perspective random) people came up with, but the text of the license was written and voted into law by the EU itself, therefore it can and does rightfully claim the following, which is invaluable to me as a FLOSS author residing in the EU.
> any litigation resulting from the interpretation of this License [...] will be subject to the jurisdiction of the Court of Justice of the European Union [...]
So even if the local courts interpretation in my home country falls short, the Court of Justice of the European Union will surely take into account the intended purpose of this license as laid out by the legislators of the EU.
Unfortunately I noticed too late that the main domain does not automatically redirect to English based on the browser preferences. If someone can replace the link to add the /en/ at the end I would be super grateful.
Secondary source with English information
The older .info domain also referenced by the LTT video links to a Telegram group, whose owners now link to the new .io domain of this post.
As to why the old website does not reference the new domain directly, I have no idea.
As always with scripts that modify your system in fundamental ways, please take great care and do your own research.
The goal behind efforts like the Librem 5 or PinePhone is not to create yet another Android phone, which Open Source or not will strengthen the Duopoly of Google and Apple in the Mobile Phone Operating System market. The goal is to create hardware that can jump-start the development of a true GNU/Linux Mobile Operating System.
With its real world use case, it has brought great advances to Mobile "Desktop" Environments like Plasma Mobile or Phosh by motivating developers who could finally use their creations and improvements on a real phone.
Maybe the PinePhone Pro could handle running it somewhat smoothly.
Notably their 2013 decision to allow a police raid on the regional newspaper Augsburger Allgemeine because an unknown individual posted an allegedly offensive comment against the CDU politician Volker Ulrich in the comments section on the newspapers website raises questions about whether the same decision would have been made had the „victim“ not been an important member of the party in power in the city of Augsburg.
Or their 2009 decision to allow a police raid on someone who was accused of illegally downloading two individual songs worth 1,29 each.
[0] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staatsanwaltschaft_Augsburg