An EU-sponsored project to create an open-source office suite to act as a drop-in replacement for Microsoft Office/365 has put out a version 1.0 release <https://www.zdnet.com/article/euro-office-is-here-libreoffice-supporters-arent-happy/>. One hiccup along the way was the copyright holders on the original code, Ascensio, have put a strange requirement on their source, namely that it was released under AGPLv3, but with a further condition saying that its trademarks and logos and stuff *could not* be removed from the code. And yet, at the same time, there was also a declaration that the source code did *not* come with a licence to use said trademarks and logos -- a copyright booby-trap if ever there was one. Bradley Kühn, author of the “A” part of the AGPL, takes this apart here <https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2026/apr/16/badgeware-onlyoffice-nextcloud-affero-gpl/>. The general verdict seems to be that Ascensio’s legal threats are toothless, and the EU consortium is free to do all the usual things with the source code as per the terms of the AGPLv3, including strip out any proprietary trademarks and logos. That’s not the only controversy over the project, of course; many people are pointing out that it would have been much less troublesome to start from a well-established code base like LibreOffice. But it seems like the EU specifically wanted something that would work as seamlessly as possible with Microsoft’s native document formats, rather than any open standard.