OnlyOffice kills Nextcloud partnership for forking its project without approval
bundie
58 points
83 comments
April 01, 2026
Related Discussions
Found 5 related stories in 49.0ms across 3,471 title embeddings via pgvector HNSW
- OnlyOffice just pulled its 8-year partnership with Nextcloud TechTechTech · 19 pts · April 01, 2026 · 79% similar
- Euro-Office Wants to Replace Google Docs and Microsoft Office rapnie · 64 pts · March 30, 2026 · 52% similar
- Office.eu launches as Europe's sovereign office platform campuscodi · 269 pts · March 15, 2026 · 49% similar
- The Document Foundation ejects its core developers hackernewsblues · 105 pts · April 01, 2026 · 47% similar
- The Document Foundation ejects its core developers janvdberg · 151 pts · April 03, 2026 · 44% similar
Discussion Highlights (11 comments)
c-hendricks
Seems onlyoffice is "unforkable"? It's AGPL but has extra restrictions: you're required to show their logo but they don't give out rights for others to use their logo.
AdmiralAsshat
If "forking without approval" is grounds for some kind of termination, then the project should probably not be considered truly "open source".
gunalx
Only onlyoffice being petty. A good reason to use LibreOffice or Collabora instead.
t0mas88
Isn't the whole idea behind AGPL that you're allowed to fork and modify it as long as you provide your modified source code to the users?
MadVikingGod
I was wondering about how they came to the conclusion that they violated the copyright, so I went to check if they did the AGPL[1] with some extra clauses in it. Turns out they didn't, but they did change[2] it[3] in an interesting way: All the https urls in the GNU version are http urls. [1]: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.txt [2]: https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/core/blob/master/LICENSE.txt [3]: https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/onlyoffice-nextcloud/blob/mast...
spacedoutman
They should have used malus.sh instead
dotdi
Important bit of information is further down in the article: OnlyOffice is Russian. I would therefore view any collaboration as a risk. It's not adequate for strategic reasons as well as sovereignty.
jimnotgym
Wow, how to alienate everyone.
davisr
Hey mods/dang, can you put this back on the front page please? No reason to bounce it. Important licensing discussion and relevant!
maxnoe
There is a section in the GitHub Readme of Eurooffice with a justification of the fork: https://github.com/Euro-Office#euro-office-liberates-the-onl...
627467
An example of how european "tech" reacts to threats. 2 european open source projects in litigation with each other and one of them engineered a license to prevent an obvious feature of open source software (forking) while the other is throwing shades at opacity and geopolitical control at the first.