<story><title>OnlyOffice: Free open source office suite with business productivity tools</title><url>https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/CommunityServer</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_atreeonmyhouse</author><text>There is some confusion here.&lt;p&gt;The linked GitHub repo clearly says Apache License, but their commercial website does say AGPL. They&amp;#x27;re not even remotely similar.&lt;p&gt;The AGPL is regarded as so toxic that nearly all companies where office suites matter, place it on a &amp;quot;do not use&amp;quot; list. It&amp;#x27;s a good way to artificially limit your potential customers. It doesn&amp;#x27;t matter that they have a page saying &amp;quot;sure go ahead and use it internally&amp;quot; - most places won&amp;#x27;t touch it with a 10m pole, by policy.</text></item><item><author>gjsman-1000</author><text>I’m surprised ONLYOFFICE isn’t more popular in more distributions. It’s AGPL, open source, and almost infinitely more intuitive than LibreOffice to anyone coming from Microsoft Office.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>2Gkashmiri</author><text>Totally bollocks.&lt;p&gt;This is pure fud. Nothing else.&lt;p&gt;AGPL DOES NOT  restrict ability to be used internally. 
Agpl does NOT restrict selling software as it is.&lt;p&gt;Agpl does not restrict using agpl software with proprietary software.&lt;p&gt;Only thing that agpl prevent is, IF YOU MODIFY AGPL SOFTWARE, YOU HAVE TO GIVE SOURCE CODE TO USERS. 
Your modifications. Thats it.&lt;p&gt;AGPL DOES NOT MANDATE upstreaming modifications. You can do it or you cannot. Your choice. Others can choose to upstream or fork or Downstream your modifications&lt;p&gt;What you are confusing with is the fud google spreads about agpl. They dont touch it because if they modify code they have to release it but they don&amp;#x27;t for reasons known to them.&lt;p&gt;Again, AGPL is NOT viral like SSPL which is like AGPL but on steroids.</text></comment>
<story><title>OnlyOffice: Free open source office suite with business productivity tools</title><url>https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/CommunityServer</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_atreeonmyhouse</author><text>There is some confusion here.&lt;p&gt;The linked GitHub repo clearly says Apache License, but their commercial website does say AGPL. They&amp;#x27;re not even remotely similar.&lt;p&gt;The AGPL is regarded as so toxic that nearly all companies where office suites matter, place it on a &amp;quot;do not use&amp;quot; list. It&amp;#x27;s a good way to artificially limit your potential customers. It doesn&amp;#x27;t matter that they have a page saying &amp;quot;sure go ahead and use it internally&amp;quot; - most places won&amp;#x27;t touch it with a 10m pole, by policy.</text></item><item><author>gjsman-1000</author><text>I’m surprised ONLYOFFICE isn’t more popular in more distributions. It’s AGPL, open source, and almost infinitely more intuitive than LibreOffice to anyone coming from Microsoft Office.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yjftsjthsd-h</author><text>&amp;gt; The AGPL is regarded as so toxic that nearly all companies where office suites matter, place it on a &amp;quot;do not use&amp;quot; list. It&amp;#x27;s a good way to artificially limit your potential customers.&lt;p&gt;Then it&amp;#x27;s no worse than any proprietary software; if they pay for a commercial license then it&amp;#x27;s fine. Of course, if they use it internally then AGPL is &lt;i&gt;also&lt;/i&gt; fine.</text></comment>