This is not new though. The EUPL have existed for almost two decades.

That's why I'm also always trying to push the benefits of open data/source/etc onto my employers. It sometimes works too.

It's up to us as individuals to also make a fuss about this stuff here in EU. I love EU but I'm not blindly trusting every corpo that's from EU.

Choose local (in our case European/EU), but not blindly and naively.

Welcome to the concept of human history.

That said, this isn't particlarly new, or even that meaningful, and Europe has a LOT of US decoupling to do whether it wants to for nationalistic reasons or not. And a lot of integration, too, so they're a good ways away from having enough of a shared sense of identity for that to be a concern.

Your grandkids can cross that bridge when they get to it, if there are any bridges left to be crossed or grandkids to cross them.

Not too worried. Europe is a great mix of countries with lots of diversity.

Europeanism, it's not one nation.

Which is fine. Europe is a world leader on globalism. Our -ism is about being proud of that.

If it's done with opensource and opendata, decoupling won't be a problem. In fact, it might even give the EU less leverage. They can threaten to stop supporting or developing an opensource project or providing open data, but any other nation or group can decide to continue.

Nothing, but there are more choices.

The Dutch government won't use GPL and BSD, but will and does use the EUPL