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

  • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    4 days ago

    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
      3·
      4 days 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.

      • Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        as a person with an american background who has absolutely no clue what he’s talking about, IIRC if there’s a long series of previous decisions it would still be very persuasive under civil law (jurisprudence constante). I cannot find any similar decisions either, though.

        • Scipitie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          2·
          3 days ago

          Oh yeahz you’re right from what I know! Reference cases are used, at least in Germany, all the time, especially looking at the closing argument of the judgment itself (according to that one judge podcast I listen to which makes me an internet expert, doesn’t it?).

          Good point!