The register of domestic software includes a product that borrowed the code from abroad

In November last year, AlterOffice was removed from the registry and recognized as borrowed (this was the first case

At that time, the expert council decided that during the development of the software, the company took a significant part of the program code from the authors of LibreOffice, the exclusive rights to which belong to theThe Document Foundation.

According to the chairman of the board of directors of the company Lebedev, now the developers of AlterOffice have improved the productThe experts approved the second application for inclusion in the register.

Almi Partner said that the uniquenessthe revised office suite has grown from 12 to 36%. So, the developers added their part of the cloud infrastructure, created a multidisciplinary user collaboration system in each of the applications, and also changed the workspaces of text, spreadsheet and presentation editors.

However, experts believe that repeatedadding a product to the registry may be a copyright infringement. They note that the free license LibreOffice gives the right to use the code, but you must indicate the copyright, even if the final product is 90% unique. Otherwise, the developer may face legal action by international organizations dealing with free software issues.

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