I just use LibreOffice, so I don't exactly have a horse in the race, but it's interesting to me that:
1) they have such opposite views on the situation and neither is interested in backing down, or resolving the matter with the help of a chunk of cash exchanging hands
2) the team behind Euro-Office is still going ahead with it, like there will never be an issue with pissing off the upstream devs and just using their work (legal or not), at that point it's the equivalent of saying "Fuck you, we're forking this." because if the people behind OnlyOffice lose a court case (or cannot pursue one), then at that point they might have to go with SSPL/BSL or some other more restrictive proprietary license
Seems like the whole licensing thing is still hanging around, wonder what will come of it: https://github.com/Euro-Office/DocumentServer/issues/44
Last comment in that issue links to https://nextcloud.com/blog/euro-office-license-compliance-an...
Yeah, that's Nextcloud's point of view.
Here's the other one:
https://www.onlyoffice.com/blog/2026/03/onlyoffice-flags-lic...
https://www.onlyoffice.com/blog/2026/03/interview-with-lev-b...
https://www.onlyoffice.com/blog/2026/03/partnership-with-nex...
https://www.onlyoffice.com/blog/2026/04/open-letter-to-the-e...
I just use LibreOffice, so I don't exactly have a horse in the race, but it's interesting to me that:
1) they have such opposite views on the situation and neither is interested in backing down, or resolving the matter with the help of a chunk of cash exchanging hands
2) the team behind Euro-Office is still going ahead with it, like there will never be an issue with pissing off the upstream devs and just using their work (legal or not), at that point it's the equivalent of saying "Fuck you, we're forking this." because if the people behind OnlyOffice lose a court case (or cannot pursue one), then at that point they might have to go with SSPL/BSL or some other more restrictive proprietary license