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@Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social on piefed.social Open parent

FSF on OnlyOffice/EuroOffice: You cannot use the GNU (A)GPL to take software freedom away

cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/technology/p/1986332/fsf-on-onlyoffice-eurooffice-you-cannot-use-the-gnu-a-gpl-to-take-software-freedom-away

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@Veraxis@lemmy.world on lemmy.world Open parent

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?

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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.

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