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.
The intent is to replace MS Office in government use, so it’s necessary for the EU to maintain its own codebase. The whole point is reducing government dependence on foreign-controlled software. The only way to accomplish that is to create your own self-controlled fork.
Especially considering the rather… drastic measures they original owners took. Starting a lawsuit when someone tries to fork your open source software is an excellent sign that someone badly needs to create a fork of your “open source” software
I don’t know much about the legal aspects, but the fact that someone running an open software project will even consider a lawsuit about forking it shows that they’re a terrible keeper for an open software project.
The intent is to replace MS Office in government use, so it’s necessary for the EU to maintain its own codebase. The whole point is reducing government dependence on foreign-controlled software. The only way to accomplish that is to create your own self-controlled fork.
Especially considering the rather… drastic measures they original owners took. Starting a lawsuit when someone tries to fork your open source software is an excellent sign that someone badly needs to create a fork of your “open source” software
Lawsuits are always interesting to verify that Libre licenses can actually preserve software freedom.
The case isn’t as crystal clear, as you’d expect, in my opinion. Although I see ONLY OFFICE acting against the spirit of the license.
I don’t know much about the legal aspects, but the fact that someone running an open software project will even consider a lawsuit about forking it shows that they’re a terrible keeper for an open software project.
There are some cases, were it could be justified. But if you’re just trying to be a PITA: Get forked!