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ONLYOFFICE flags license violations in “Euro-Office” project (www.onlyoffice.com)
submitted 15 hours ago by kiri@ani.social to c/opensource@programming.dev
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To build an independent office suite, Euro‑Office’s IT consortium opted to base it on the existing open‑source solution OnlyOffice, which is released under the AGPL‑v3

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[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 20 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

The legal argument is a bit dubious and clearly in violation of the idea of the AGPL, but I guess this is something courts will have to settle.

[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

and clearly in violation of the idea of the AGPL

Dunno how that could be since the idea of requiring attribution is specifically called out in Section 7, item B.

I guess this is something courts will have to settle.

Almost certainly true.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 7 points 12 hours ago

Attribution isn't the problem. They try to circumvent the AGPL by making their trademarked logo part of the attribution, thus basically forbidding any of the rights people normally have under the AGPL.

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

I thought Europe already had case law surrounding this while the US have never taken it as far as courts and paid an undisclosed sum.

[–] Scipitie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 14 hours ago

In Europe I'm now aware of any common law or precedence law approaches so even if there'd be a case like you described (which I would be interested in!) it wouldn't have binding qualities for the bullshit that onlyoffice is pulling off.

Dipshits.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

What case are you referring to?

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

From a quick glance, none of these examples are similar to the OnlyOffice claim.