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ONLYOFFICE flags license violations in “Euro-Office” project (www.onlyoffice.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by kiri@ani.social to c/opensource@programming.dev
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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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[–] jcr@jlai.lu -1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Because they hate GNU and free software. They is european lobbyist companies

[–] mholiv@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Imagine being this ignorant. They chose to fork only office because it’s web based and AGPL.

The original only office team refuses to allow community contributions and tries to stop people from forking it with a stupid (against the terms and spirit of the AGPL) poison pill.

Eurooffice are the good people here.

[–] kiri@ani.social -2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Eurooffice are the good people here.

At first, it seemed to me that Euro-Office simply removed any mention of ONLYOFFICE and its authors because they didn't want to be associated with a Russian product (even though it’s based in Latvia). The developers wanted the origin of the product and its authors to be mentioned in the 'About' section and somewhere in the README like based on ONLYOFFICE. I think it would be polite of euro-office.

But as I understand it, the Reddit and Lemmy users see the problem in the fact that you must use someone else's logo, which you can't use.