A European open source initiative to fork the OnlyOffice project, in order to provide a sovereign and transparent alternative to Microsoft's Office suite. TLDR: The reasons for a fork are stated...
A European open source initiative to fork the OnlyOffice project, in order to provide a sovereign and transparent alternative to Microsoft's Office suite.
TLDR: The reasons for a fork are stated to be as follows- the OnlyOffice team rarely (if ever) allow outside contributions, the project relies on a number of proprietary binaries, and the project is somewhat linked to a number of Russian entities.
This initiative is also discussed in the Selfh.st newsletter, which can be found here.
As far as I can understand, OnlyOffice is essentially admitting that their claimed use of AGPLv3 is intended as a scam, and that the software is not meaningfully open source. Their two 'additional...
As an aside, OnlyOffice are currently arguing that license violations have occurred, despite their use of a (modified) AGPLv3 license.
As far as I can understand, OnlyOffice is essentially admitting that their claimed use of AGPLv3 is intended as a scam, and that the software is not meaningfully open source. Their two 'additional requirements' amount to:
Any derivative work must use the OnlyOffice logo, and
Derivative works have no right to use the OnlyOffice logo.
Essentially, no derivative works are allowed. If they are allowed to refer to this as AGPLv3, then software being AGPLv3 has no meaning. The FSF has sent lawyers after scams like this before; hopefully, if OnlyOffice tries to enforce these terms, the FSF will become involved again.
A European open source initiative to fork the OnlyOffice project, in order to provide a sovereign and transparent alternative to Microsoft's Office suite.
TLDR: The reasons for a fork are stated to be as follows- the OnlyOffice team rarely (if ever) allow outside contributions, the project relies on a number of proprietary binaries, and the project is somewhat linked to a number of Russian entities.
This initiative is also discussed in the Selfh.st newsletter, which can be found here.
As an aside, OnlyOffice are currently arguing that license violations have occurred, despite their use of a (modified) AGPLv3 license.
As far as I can understand, OnlyOffice is essentially admitting that their claimed use of AGPLv3 is intended as a scam, and that the software is not meaningfully open source. Their two 'additional requirements' amount to:
Essentially, no derivative works are allowed. If they are allowed to refer to this as AGPLv3, then software being AGPLv3 has no meaning. The FSF has sent lawyers after scams like this before; hopefully, if OnlyOffice tries to enforce these terms, the FSF will become involved again.
Odd that pallas is responding to lynxy here...I guess I'm keeping things in Carnivora (or at least Mammalia).
How does OnlyOffice compare to OpenOffice or LibreOffice in usability?