The “Euro-Office” initiative is an evident and material violation of ONLYOFFICE licensing terms and principles of international intellectual property law.
  • Ftumch@lemmy.todayEnglish
    8·
    2 days ago

    So the additional conditions include:

    • 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)).

    Those sound contradictory to me. You have to retain the original branding, but presumably that branding has been trademarked by OnlyOffice. Sounds like this makes it impossible to create and distribute a fork without their permission. If you can’t do that OnlyOffice is only source available, not truly open source.

    • eleijeep@piefed.socialEnglish
      8·
      2 days ago

      Very sneaky, but at least now they’ve shown their true colours. Likely this is a deliberate poison pill clause to prevent forks from competing while still appearing to be FOSS.

      Any organisations that value FOSS and who are using OnlyOffice should be informed of the licensing gotcha so they can re-evaluate if the software meets their criteria.

    • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      From what I understand, those are not mutually exclusive clauses in this case. On first glance it seems trademark usage is defined as using it to your own power for your own purposes. Simply supplying the trademark as a form of attribution such as on a footer, attribution page or header isn’t generally trademark usage since it’s a requirement of the license itself.

      What would be considered usage would be if they went a step further and claimed ownership or that they had control over said project. The easiest way of violating this seems to be if you do not supply your own branding at the same time, so their marking is the only marking on the page, this would deceive people into thinking you are the project, which would be in violation of trademark usage.

      This is just what I found at first glance though, IANAL