coalition of European enterprises and community organizations today have launched Euro-Office, a solution for editing documents, spreadsheets and presentations, developed as a true sovereign community collaboration of over a dozen different organizations.

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    The legal battle between euro office and onlyoffice is interesting. I actually hope it goes to european courts. I suspect onlyoffice will win this one, but then everyone will abandon their code.

    Simultaneously TDF and collabora are having a spat.

    Interesting things afoot in the FOSS hosted office ecosystem. Prediction: a third option emerges – clean room rewrite (maybe this is a good thing).

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      I don’t think OnlyOffice will win in court.

      AGPL3 prevents you from adding restrictions.

      In clause 7 3(b) they add a clause that you must keep their Logo etc. In the UI

      The almost immediately in a follow up clause restrict anyone from using their Logo etc.

      With those clauses, you can’t fork the repo. Which adds a restriction, which is against AGPL3

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      I suspect onlyoffice will win this one

      I’m sceptical tbh, their interpretation of the AGPL seems questionable. The specific wording in the AGPL they’re relying on for their logo preservation term is:

      Requiring preservation of specified reasonable legal notices or author attributions in that material or in the Appropriate Legal Notices displayed by works containing it

      IMO a logo isn’t attribution, and even if it was there’s no way it could be considered reasonable to require it if they don’t allow you to use it.