The new 2.1 release of openFWPA has been published under a dual LGPL 3.0/EUPL 1.1 license and is already available for download. The main changes included in this release are:

• Upgraded the license to EUPL 1.1
• Upgrade to Spring 2.5.6. Using XSD instead of DTD in beans files in SampleApp
• Replacement of OSCache by EHCache in SampleApp. Integration with Spring through spring-modules in SampleApp
• Upgrade to Axis 1.4
• Using H2 as test database

Versión 1.1 of the EUPL license (European Union Public License) has been published, without significant changes from the previous one, version 1.0. The license essentially says the same, and only some paragraphs change slightly. Contrary to licenses such as GPL, where upgrading to a later version is a licensee’s option, EUPL version 1.0 forced licensees to upgrade to a newer version of EUPL as soon as they were aware of its publication (this is one of the things corrected in 1.1).

We have released openFWPA version 2.0.2. You can download it from here. The main changes included in this release, being a minor revision, are:

• NIE Control Character Validation algorithm fixed
• Liberation of @firma proxy
• New normalization and validation methods of Fiscal Identifiers
• Made optional the dependencies that are not needed for runtime

Juanjo Hierro, in an interview for “The 451 Group“, talks about Morfeo and openFWPA. He explained that the Morfeo Project is based on “The Law of Conservation of Attractive Profits”, articulated by Clayton Christensen in his book “The Innovator’s Solution”:

“When attractive profits disappear at one stage in the value chain because a product becomes modular and commoditized, the opportunity to earn attractive profits with proprietary products will usually emerge at an adjacent stage“.

Yesterday, 28th, was published the report eEspaña 2008 by Orange Foundation, that includes a classification of availability of electronic services in Spanish regions. Results show again that Asturias is still at the top, both regarding citizen-oriented services and business-oriented ones:

• GLOBAL AVAILABILITY AVERAGE (26 services):
  • Highest Position: Asturias (91 %)
  • Second Position: Madrid (84%)
  • National Average: 67%

• CITIZEN ORIENTED SERVICES AVERAGE (16 services):
  • Highest Position: Asturias (91 %)
  • Second Position: Madrid (88%)
  • National Average: 69%

• BUSINESS ORIENTED SERVICES AVERAGE (10 services):
  • Highest Position: Asturias (93 %)
  • Second Position: Andalucía (90%)
  • National Average: 64%