FSF clarifies its stance on AGPLv3 additional terms

OnlyOffice CEO Lev Bannov has recentlyclaimed that the Euro-Office fork of theOnlyOffice suite violates the GNU Affero General Public Licenseversion3 (AGPLv3). Krzysztof Siewicz of the Free SoftwareFoundation (FSF) has publishedan article on the FSF's position on adding terms to the AGPLv3. Inshort, Siewicz concludes that OnlyOffice has added restrictions tothe license that are not compatible with the AGPLv3, and thoserestrictions can be removed by recipients of the code.

We urge OnlyOffice to clarify the situation by making it unambiguousthat OnlyOffice is licensed under the AGPLv3, and that users whoalready received copies of the software are allowed to remove anyfurther restrictions. Additionally, if they intend to continue to usethe AGPLv3 for future releases, they should state clearly that theprogram is licensed under the AGPLv3 and make sure they remove anyfurther restrictions from their program documentation and sourcecode. Confusing users by attaching further restrictions to any of theFSF's family of GNU General Public Licenses is not in line with freesoftware.