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Licence and attribution

MuchAdo

MuchAdo is free software, licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.

What it is built from

MuchAdo is a desktop host around Euro-Office, an AGPL fork of ONLYOFFICE, which is developed by Ascensio System SIA. The editors, the document engine and the file format support are theirs; the host, the packaging and the desktop integration are ours.

We are grateful for both. An office suite's hard part is the twenty years of reading other people's .docx files correctly, and that part is inherited.

Corresponding source

The AGPL requires that you can get the source for what you are running, and that includes our modifications.

A MuchAdo release records, in its payload manifest:

  • the exact upstream revision of each repository it was built from, pinned by commit hash;
  • the commit of MuchAdo itself;
  • the repositories where both can be fetched.

Our changes to upstream are kept as a patch series against those pinned revisions rather than as a divergent branch, so "what did MuchAdo change?" has a short and checkable answer. See The patch queue.

We point at public repositories; we do not serve tarballs.