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Nextcloud has announced the general availability date for its collaborative Euro-Office suite, scheduling the launch for just days from now, June 9.
Euro-Office, in case you're unaware, is a direct software fork of OnlyOffice. A coalition of European companies (including Nextcloud and IONOS) built this application to offer a "European sovereign alternative" to proprietary giants like Microsoft 365 and Google Docs.
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It's barely been two months since the coalition announced the project, and controversy already surrounds the software. The upstream project, OnlyOffice, aggressively opposed the fork because the Euro-Office developers stripped out original logos and branding elements from the codebase.
OnlyOffice distributed its code under the AGPLv3 license but included controversial "Section 7" clauses requiring any derivative works to retain the ONLYOFFICE branding, logos, and attribution. When Nextcloud and its partners ignored these clauses, OnlyOffice accused the coalition of copyright infringement and immediately terminated an eight-year-old business partnership with Nextcloud.
Nextcloud's developers have responded by calling those branding clauses legally invalid. The team said they chose a hard fork instead of just contributing upstream because OnlyOffice repeatedly ignored pull requests from the community and left codebase comments written literally in Russian to complicate independent auditing.
You might be wondering why we need a new suite when LibreOffice is already a thing. The Euro-Office consortium defends the decision by pointing to its vastly superior performance in web browsers.
Nextcloud said that the June 9 release aims to stabilize things a bit by cleaning up the code and improving support for open formats. To reduce the barrier to contribution, the development team translated the remaining Russian comments to English and improved automated testing pipelines. The team plans other features like mobile apps and deeper integrations for a future release, while partner companies like Office.eu, IONOS, and XWiki plan to roll out the software to their customers later this year.
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