If they’re the copyright holder, they are allowed to use any license they want. Including a modified AGPL. It’s up to the users to understand what license they’re getting the software under. In this case, it is a modified-AGPL.

This is like Qt when they used the modified GPL (Qt 2-3 era, before they went full LGPL). Qt was the copyright holder and can issue under terms they decide. Then it is up to the users to decide if those terms are acceptable. KDE decided these terms were acceptable, but some other users did not.

However, if a user decided to ignore the additional clauses in Qt and treat it as unmodified GPL, they would have been in violation of the license. Because Qt was the the copyright holder and can dictate terms. Qt would have won the court case. It never happened, so it wasn’t tested, and that’s ancient history now.

But here OnlyOffice is in the same boat. They can dictate the terms, and a court can decide if a user is in adherence of those terms. There’s no part of copyright law that OnlyOffice is violating here.

What will be up for legal debate is whether EuroOffice is willfully and maliciously violating it, or if they just interpreted differently. If the latter, then there will be a great deal of legalese. The real question will be: the AGPL as amended by OnlyOffice – does it permit forking, and are forks subject to the same modified clauses.

I suspect OnlyOffice wins this one if it actually goes to court. Which will be super annoying from an end user perspective.

The problem with this is that OnlyOffice owns the copyright and used attribution agreements from any contributions. Meaning, as owners of the copyright, they are allowed to set the license. So if they applied the AGPL wrong, they aren’t violating anyone else’s copyright. If OnlyOffice has used someone else’s AGPL code and then added these impossible restrictions, then I would agree.

Linux is as buggy as you want it to be. If you’re using Gentoo or Arch in production (and aren’t Valve) and are recompiling kernels cause you read a tomshardware article about a scheduler… Then yeah 😀

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).

Hypothetically: Lemmy instances where every user has to have physically met an admin and proved that they’re real or something. And they’ll only federate to other instances following the same rules.

It’ll almost be like the early 90s dialup BBS small communities, with FIDOnet ;)

Uncle, how do I upvote twice? ;)

The end of the anonymous web is nigh. We may not like it, but it’s probably the only way. We used to joke in the 90s about requiring an internet driver’s license before allowing people on Usenet. It might actually be happening.

Okay, first off, I’m really impressed that Lemmy (the web interface anyway) embeds TIL.vids video player and it just works. Since it’s peertube, I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. (I wonder how hard it is to create a peertube instance, hmmm.)

Next: as a former KDE dev, I love these sorts of updates. Put it on the background while I was working this morning :)

Most interesting: hiding things from screencasting… if Plasma were ever deployed in an educational context, this will hurt the anti-cheating software that screencasts your screen during test taking. Well, they probably make you use windows in that situation anyway ;)

Weirdest: mouse pointer stays in centre mode… bizarre. Would be fun to couple with an eye tracking camera to create a fucked up feedback loop haha.

There are mechanisms. See 25th Amendment. But it’s not useful: 2/3 of both houses must agree with the incompetency ruling of cabinet, which consists VP plus 50% + 1 of the cabinet. Since his cabinet is stacked by his lackeys, the only way this could occur is if Vance is performing a coup. Still need 2/3 of each house, which is harder to get than impeachment!

Canadian curler can just lightly touch him with a single finger. Boop.

Went to a strip club once and the stripper was handing out fake $69 bills with her image on it and a link to her OnlyFans…

Definitely not in ziplock bags hidden in the nearest forest to the school, put there by your older brother…

You might need help. If you’re unwilling to seek help, then at least learn to code and, you know, read the code.

They’ve already got a joint account. Basically married.

Shit, if everyone sees this, they’re all going to start fucking swearing all the time, and the bastards won’t be inhibited anymore. That means the rest of us cunts will have to find another way to express ourselves as assholes in public to achieve the same performance gains. Damnit!

Steps, cushions, lava lamp ;)

LinkedIn is like a tenth as bad as others. At least it is (still, somewhat) marginally useful.

Well the ads percentage in the feed keeps going up. And more AI generated crap. But show me a social network (that isn’t Lemmy) where that isn’t true.

They can sincerely hold these beliefs. They will just believe “not that veteran”

The Matrix was right. Lynch’s Dune was peak humanity.

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