European tech firms will ship the first stable release of Euro-Office next month, giving governments and businesses worldwide a ready-to-run, sovereign alternative to Microsoft Office and Google Docs.
They will have to keep it open for all permanently because OnlyOffice is published under a AGPL v.3 license. Any derivative work needs to have the same license meaning the code needs to stay public. They dont have a choice but I don’t think they would close it down every anyway
This seems to be marketed to businesses and governments, but is it limited to them? Or should anyone be able to set up a public instance?
It is a fork of only office, and as for now the aim is to keep it open to all.
They will have to keep it open for all permanently because OnlyOffice is published under a AGPL v.3 license. Any derivative work needs to have the same license meaning the code needs to stay public. They dont have a choice but I don’t think they would close it down every anyway