Quite the interesting fresh FOSS drama.

[jti42@infosec.exchange]

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@ONLYOFFICE/116323756094840918

Quite the interesting fresh FOSS drama.
Curious to see how this will turn out. Two on settlement.

Also, should the verdict go towards the Euro-Office fork will we see any precendence for other cases effectively weaking FOSS legal protection? Will distributors or integrators be impacted?

@Karlitschek being a clear FOSS native will surely have a proper strategy & plan forward laid out for this with his legal counsel. Or so one would hope.

Technically a pleasant product that one could only hope to be continued and advanced, ideally on combined man power of both parties.

#fossdrama #fosscompliance #onlyoffice #eurooffice #drama #foss

[sirtao@social.sirtao.it]

I'm unsure the #EuroOffice people might want to settle.

Actually getting a judge to put down a precedent could be a good investment to keep developerso to add not-so-FOSS additions to open licenses.
From my limited experience, it's uncommon for licenses getting litigated up to a verdict, which is arguably part of the issue with non-open licenses: their requests are often so disproportionate they might end up be torn out by a formal sentence.

Of course, this would require them to be reasonably sure of winning it out, but somehow I don't think they would have started in first place if they thought otherwise

CC: @Karlitschek@mastodon.social