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Never heard of OnlyOffice before, will never ever be using it now.
Here I am, an American using libreoffice, with even less of an idea about what's going on
I'm glad someone forked OnlyOffice but wish they came up with a better name than EuroOffice
Disney is all: Calling it "Euro"? Let us know how that goes...
The Open Source community really sucks at naming things
There are three options naming open source projects:
- Open/Libre something.
- This is not This acronym
- Kinky sounding acronym
Why not combine all three?
Introducing: OpenLibreSPANK! It stands for "Spank Proudly Ain't Not Kinky"!
Beautiful!
Name other other similar tool, prefixed with the language it was rewritten in.
Free/Open something: BSD😂
NetBSD
I think from a political perspective its a good choice. It conveys that it's a european software fitting right into the EU becoming less dependent on foreign software.
As someone out of the loop on this, it would be helpful if they didn't wait until 4 paragraphs into the article to state what OnlyOffice actually did. Likewise the article they link to by OpenOffice doesn't state what EuroOffice did until 7 paragraphs in.
Apparently it's a dispute about EuroOffice changing the logo when they forked OnlyOffice?
From the blog-
Pursuant to Section 7 of AGPLv3, the copyright holder is expressly entitled to impose additional conditions. In the case of ONLYOFFICE, such conditions include, in particular:
- the obligation to retain the original product logo (Section 7(b));
- the denial of any rights to use the copyright holder’s trademarks (Section 7(e)).
Such additions to the License were implemented on May 25, 2021, and can be found at line 655 of the License.
ie. You're not allowed to rebrand the software as something else and additionally, not allowed to use their trademarks without their consent - they're trying to turn something agpl into 'shared source' proprietary software.
Apparently it’s a dispute about EuroOffice changing the logo when they forked OnlyOffice?
Yes, pretty much.
OnlyOffice added a restriction that says you can't change the logo and the FSF explaining why 1. They're not allowed to add additional restrictions and 2. The AGPL's license says if they do, you can ignore them (basically).
And to be more clear: OnlyOffice also did not grant permission to use said logo. They used this to try to deny people the ability to create forks, which goes against the core principles of the AGPL and open source.
Wow, that's just ridiculous.
"Here's some free software that is non-free."
this post was submitted on 15 Apr 2026
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