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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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[–] gsv@programming.dev 11 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Not a legal argument but what is the possibility of modifying and redistributing the software worth of the entire branding (!), etc. have to be kept intact. Doesn’t that impose limits on modifications in the first place? Doesn’t feel much like the idea of a viral copyleft license. Also, if the first thing after a prominent fork is starting a legal fight over subtleties in the license with the goal of preserving one’s brand, I’m not so sure why the software was distributed with an AGPL in the first place. The whole thing doesn’t seem to add up.

[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 2 points 12 hours ago

The whole thing doesn’t seem to add up.

Likely because we don't know what the agreement is between OO and NC. They obviously have one because they've been partners for nearly a decade.