@skittles i think there's actually precedent, at least in the united states: the sega genesis used to protect their console against unlicensed games by requiring each game to hold a piece of text saying "SEGA" in the ROM data header at a specific spot, it was called the "TradeMark Security System" or TMSS

the idea was that unlicensed games would be violating sega's trademark if they put "SEGA" in the ROM without sega's permission

the court ruled that others using a trademark that was literally required for a product to function can't be a violation

@rnd @skittles People bring in this trademark matter, without there being any hint that trademarks play a role here.

What happened is that Euro-Office removed large parts of the attribution to OnlyOffice, presumably to create a competing product, not because of trademark issues. This is what OnlyOffice complains about.

@rnd @skittles
Now the question that needs to be discussed is not trademark matters, but rather how far the AGPL 7b restrictions can go in requiring attributions.

Is mentioning the original authors somewhere in the legal small print sufficient for the attribution requirements if the original author explicitly claims that attribution should remain significant in the user interface?