PieFedOnlyOffice invokes AGPLv3, says Nextcloud must restore removed logos in Euro-Office fork
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Nextcloud tried to work with OnlyOffice, but they refused and don’t look at any PR’s
So Nextcloud forked it and created EuroOffice. Now OnlyOffice is pissed
Sure, I get the fork, and that’s the beauty of open source. However, attribution should be standard. You can’t just fork and claim it as your own. It’s still based on code someone else wrote.
Attribution is required by the (A)GPL and is standard in forks. What is not required is preserving branding and logos.
For a good reason, those are often trademarks. Had they included them Only office would sue them for trademark violations.
It’s a dishonest attempt to override the FOSS license.
FSS are the creators or AGPL3, aka. The liscence OnlyOffice is released under.
FSS made a statement/blog-post to say the restrictions OnlyOffice added are illegitimate and not in accordance with AGPL3.
OO isn’t just asking for attribution they are asking two things.
Do you see the problem, it’s not just attribution