The “Euro-Office” initiative is an evident and material violation of ONLYOFFICE licensing terms and principles of international intellectual property law.

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

  • entwine@programming.dev
    0·
    9 days ago

    So they’re saying that the AGPL v3 additional terms for Only office include this:

    • the obligation to retain the original product logo
    • the denial of any rights to use the copyright holder’s trademarks

    How can you retain the original logo if you don’t have the right to use their trademarks? (I’m assuming they have a trademark for the logo)

    This feels like a sleazy attempt to find a loop hole in the AGPL language to restrict commercial use. Afaik, GPL licenses specifically allow commercial distribution, as not doing so would be a restriction on freedom.

    If Only Office doesn’t want people to do this, they could have very easily just chosen a different license from the beginning. I find it hard to see them as the good guy here.

    • morto@piefed.socialEnglish
      1·
      8 days ago

      This case is a good thing to happen, because the resulting jurisprudence will give us more certainity about the agpl and if the onlyoffice people lose, we will have the codebase available in a no bullshit repo from another group