| For the record, this is the argument ONLYOFFICE's lawyer is making: - ONLYOFFICE is under AGPLv3 since 2016. - AGPLv3 requires source disclosure, preserving the license, and keeping copyright notices. - Section 7 lets ONLYOFFICE add conditions: keep the logo and no trademark use. - You must follow all license terms, including these extra conditions, to legally use or distribute the software. - Ignoring these conditions is a license breach and copyright infringement. |
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| ▲ | cwillu 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | > You must follow all license terms, including these extra conditions, to legally use or distribute the software. Good thing that the license says in section 7: “[…] When you convey a copy of a covered work, you may at your option remove any additional permissions [“terms that supplement the terms of this License by making exceptions from one or more of its conditions”] from that copy, or from any part of it. […]” | | |
| ▲ | kube-system 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | That clause doesn't apply because we're talking about an additional restriction, not an additional permission. But, same result, because it also says: > If the Program as you received it, or any part of it, contains a notice stating that it is governed by this License along with a term that is a further restriction, you may remove that term. A restriction stating "you must keep branding" can be ignored. What you can require, is attribution. | | |
| ▲ | X-Ryl669 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | The license contains (section 7): > [you may] supplement the terms of this License with terms:
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> b) Requiring preservation of specified reasonable legal notices or
> author attributions in that material or in the Appropriate Legal
> Notices displayed by works containing it; or
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> c) Prohibiting misrepresentation of the origin of that material, or
> requiring that modified versions of such material be marked in
> reasonable ways as different from the original version; or
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> d) Limiting the use for publicity purposes of names of licensors or
> authors of the material; or
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> e) Declining to grant rights under trademark law for use of some
> trade names, trademarks, or service marks; So the requirement of branding and attribution aren't "further restriction" (which, in this context, means a restriction that is not in the AGPLv3 license text). It's after section 7's list of allowed restrictions, which, paragraph b, contains "require preservation of [...] legal notices or [...] attributions", paragraph d is made to prevent misuse of the original author reputation, and paragraph e to prevent misuse of trademarks, so they, IMHO, are all legitimate. | | |
| ▲ | kube-system 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Yes, preservation of [...] author attributions --- not branding or logos These are different things. However, I did glance at the repo and I don't see any attributions, either. |
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| ▲ | kube-system 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Their lawyer is right about everything except: > - Section 7 lets ONLYOFFICE add conditions: keep the logo and no trademark use. Section 7 allows you to add permissions, but it prohibits any restrictions beyond the options listed in section 7. | | |
| ▲ | X-Ryl669 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | That's true. And, in my understanding, what OO did, falls exactly in paragraph b and d. The license doesn't describe what is the "Appropriate Legal Notices" and OO provided a description for it: its logo and its trademark. | | |
| ▲ | kube-system 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | No, logos and trademarks are neither "legal notices" nor "author attributions". It's simply not what those words mean. A "legal notice" is some sort of legally relevant document. An "author attribution" is a plaintext recognition of the original copyright holder. If you look at the repo, it looks like the did fail to include author attributions, as far as I can see. The source files need to say they were originally written by OO. That's what author attribution means. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attribution_(copyright) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notice |
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