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

  • Buelldozer@lemmy.today
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    4 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.