Human Colossus presents itself as an Independent and non-profit foundation. The Foundation is registered in Geneva, outside the EU territory.

It participates to projects in various parts of the world (like in Canada with the semantic engine for agri-food data canada - ADC), in medicine (next gen cardiovascular project) and economy (development of a Dynamic Data Economic Architecture).

Human Colossus Community develops variation of artifacts including software, related documentation, handbooks, standard specifications, education materials, etc. Some of those components are crossing each other, e.g. piece of code in specification or a documentation within software package. To make their users life easier they wanted to avoid using multiple licenses for each separate item. Having one license which would reflect their values and support easy distribution of those components further was considered as very important not only from organization point of view but as well from perspective of adoption and development where developers don't need to worry about cross checking licenses for each individual item which they are working on. Having an umbrella license which can cover all speeds up development and simplify the rules for contributors.

For all these reasons, the Swiss foundation adopted the EUPL as the core of their licensing strategy and explains the reasons on their site (better than we could do ourselves):  https://humancolossus.foundation/license-strategy.

Another evidence that “our” licence is not “reserved” to European citizens or entities, but may be adopted and used by everyone.