--- title: Euro-Office, ONLYOFFICE, and their licensing dispute description: Euro-Office, a new open-source office suite initiative led by Nextcloud and IONOS, forked ONLYOFFICE (licensed under AGPLv3) and removed ONLYOFFICE's... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/euro-office-onlyoffice-and-their-licensing-dispute-mtt8ujd1y twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Euro-Office, ONLYOFFICE, and their licensing dispute | daily.dev og:description: Euro-Office, a new open-source office suite initiative led by Nextcloud and IONOS, forked ONLYOFFICE (licensed under AGPLv3) and removed ONLYOFFICE's... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/euro-office-onlyoffice-and-their-licensing-dispute-mtt8ujd1y og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/mtT8UjD1y.png og:image:alt: Euro-Office, ONLYOFFICE, and their licensing dispute og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Euro-Office, ONLYOFFICE, and their licensing dispute **[Lobsters](https://daily.dev/sources/lobsters)** · 15 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Euro-Office, a new open-source office suite initiative led by Nextcloud and IONOS, forked ONLYOFFICE (licensed under AGPLv3) and removed ONLYOFFICE's additional license terms requiring logo retention. ONLYOFFICE claims these terms are valid under AGPLv3 Section 7(b) and (e), while Euro-Office and the Free Software Foundation argue that logos do not qualify as 'legal notices or author attributions' under Section 7(b), making the logo retention requirement an impermissible further restriction. ONLYOFFICE has issued a formal notice of copyright violation, suspended its partnership with Nextcloud, and invited FSF arbitration. The FSF's published position largely supports Euro-Office's interpretation. The dispute raises broader questions about open source business sustainability and whether ONLYOFFICE might eventually relicense to a proprietary model. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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