Recht·IE Forum·16 apr

The Logo Trap: OnlyOffice's AGPLv3 gambit and what it means for free and open-source compliance

If you are active in the field of IT law or software development, chances are you will be familiar with open source licensing, and specifically the General Public License (GPL) in its various iterations, GPLv1, GPLv2 and GPLv3, as well as closely-related licenses based on them, like the AGPL. It is one of the most ‘copyleft’ licenses in Free (as in Freedom, also clarified with th addition of ‘Libre’) Open Source Software, or F(L)OSS community. It is a wonderful legal document – yes, that is a thing: open source is a legal construct at heart, and brilliant one at that – and someone just tried to hack it...