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ONLYOFFICE flags license violations in “Euro-Office” project (www.onlyoffice.com)
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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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[-] entwine@programming.dev 45 points 3 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.social 19 points 3 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

[-] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 8 points 3 days ago

How can you retain the original logo if you don’t have the right to use their trademarks?

I'm confused by that as well.

This feels like a sleazy attempt to find a loop hole in the AGPL language to restrict commercial use.

That cannot be the case; OnlyOffice has been working with Nextcloud for years to provide interoperability.

If Only Office doesn’t want people to do this, they could have very easily just chosen a different license from the beginning.

I don't believe that "restricting commercial use" is the problem. In this article OnlyOffice has apparently been having problems with Nextcloud pushing past their licensing boundaries and even soliciting OnlyOffice's customers directly.

[-] olafurp@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

It's technically possible. You'd have to keep the branding and logo but also say "Powered by ONLYOFFICE" to comply. You'd also have to release the source code under the same license.

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