GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 or later

Also known as AGPL v3 or later, AGPL-3.0+, GNU AGPL Version 3 or later, GNU AGPL v3 or later, GNU AGPLv3+, GNU Affero General Public License Version 3 or later.

Commercial use: allowed
Share alike: required
Attribution: required (keep the copyright and license notices)

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Canonical URI https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/AGPL-3.0-or-later

Permissions

Charge distribution fee from the text
Commercial use from the text
Derivative works from the text
Derive from the text
Duties
- Attribution from the text
- Modification notice from the text
- Notice from the text
- Source code from the text
Display from the text
Distribute from the text
Duties
- Attribution from the text
- Notice from the text
- Source code from the text
Modified works from the text
Modify from the text
Duties
- Attribution from the text
- Modification notice from the text
- Notice from the text
- Source code from the text
Network use trigger from the text
Duties
- Source code from the text
Patent grant from the text
Present from the text
Reproduce from the text

Prohibitions

Change license from the text

License-wide duties

Share alike from the text

What applies by default

The statements above are the library's reading of this license: each is marked with the sentence it rests on, or as a library convention where the text is not explicit. The statements below are the ones the DALICC reasoner supplies for acts the license says nothing about, from the default rules of the dependency graph it reasons with. Each one names the legal source it rests on. None of it is in the record.

Promote by default rule (adopted)

This license says nothing about Promote, and the graph applies this reading in all jurisdictions it covers: it is not permitted unless the license permits it.

A licence that says nothing about endorsement is read as not allowing it: the licence gives the licensee no right to use the licensor's name or marks in a way that states or implies that the licensor endorses the licensee or its product, while stating truthfully that a work is based on or uses the licensed work is a different act that this rule does not decide. A copyright licence grants rights in the work, and the right to use a name or a trademark is a separate right under trademark law and the protection of names, which a silent copyright licence does not pass on. Combining a licence that is silent about endorsement with one that permits it shows a conflict marked as coming from this rule.

Basis Trademark and name rights are separate from copyright: Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 article 9 lets the proprietor of an EU trade mark prevent all third parties not having his consent from using the sign in the course of trade, and Directive (EU) 2015/2436 article 10, 15 U.S.C. 1114 and 1125(a), section 12 BGB and section 43 ABGB protect marks and names in the same way. The library's evidence is Creative Commons 4.0 section 2(b)(2): Patent and trademark rights are not licensed under this Public License. A copyright licence that is silent grants no right to use the licensor's name or marks to suggest endorsement (Worldwide)

Further terms

These are the things the license says about itself beyond the acts it permits, forbids and requires: when it ends, how long there is to put a breach right, which law governs it, and so on. A term that comes from the DALICC vocabulary links to its definition.

Compatible with: GPL-3.0-only
Compatible with: GPL-3.0-or-later
Cure period: 30 days
Or later version option: Yes
Terminates on breach: Yes

Clauses

Warranty disclaimer

THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE PROGRAM "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.

Limitation of liability

IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MODIFIES AND/OR CONVEYS THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER PROGRAMS), EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

Accepting warranty or additional liability

you may offer support or warranty protection for a fee

Additional clauses

Notwithstanding any other provision of this License, if you modify the Program, your modified version must prominently offer all users interacting with it remotely through a computer network (if your version supports such interaction) an opportunity to receive the Corresponding Source of your version by providing access to the Corresponding Source from a network server at no charge, through some standard or customary means of facilitating copying of software. This Corresponding Source shall include the Corresponding Source for any work covered by version 3 of the GNU General Public License that is incorporated pursuant to the following paragraph. Notwithstanding any other provision of this License, you have permission to link or combine any covered work with a work licensed under version 3 of the GNU General Public License into a single combined work, and to convey the resulting work. The terms of this License will continue to apply to the part which is the covered work, but the work with which it is combined will remain governed by version 3 of the GNU General Public License.

Info

Target asset types: Software
Region / jurisdiction: Worldwide
Validity: Perpetual
Source: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html
Legal code: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html
This description is published under: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Publisher: Free Software Foundation
SPDX identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later on the SPDX license list
DALICC identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later

This record is published under CC BY 4.0. Credit it as: DALICC License Library, DALICC - Verein zur Förderung der Rechtssicherheit in der Datenbewirtschaftung, https://dalicc.net, CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The license it describes belongs to its publisher.

Use this license

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JSON sidecar

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  "license-uri": "https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/AGPL-3.0-or-later",
  "license-title": "GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 or later",
  "spdx-id": "AGPL-3.0-or-later",
  "attribution": "Copyright (c) [year] [copyright holder]",
  "asset": null,
  "generated-by": "DALICC"
}

RDF, Turtle

@prefix cc: <http://creativecommons.org/ns#> .

<https://example.org/my-work>
    cc:license <https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/AGPL-3.0-or-later> .

RDF, JSON-LD

{
  "@context": {
    "cc": "http://creativecommons.org/ns#"
  },
  "@id": "https://example.org/my-work",
  "cc:license": {
    "@id": "https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/AGPL-3.0-or-later"
  }
}

HTML attribution

<p>This work is licensed under <a href="https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/AGPL-3.0-or-later" rel="license">GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 or later</a>.</p>

This license asks for attribution, so the credit line is part of it.

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HTML

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Review

Written from the license text by: Giray Havur
Written on: 2026-09-22
Second review: not yet done
Record changed since this review: yes (version 2, 2026-09-24)
Findings: 14 recorded, 11 applied to the record, 1 proposed

The record models the "or later" form of the Affero GPL version 3. Its legal text is the same document that the AGPL-3.0 record models, so the deontic model is that record statement for statement. What the identifier adds is the option section 14 gives the licensee to follow this version or any later version the Free Software Foundation publishes. The network clause of section 13, which is what distinguishes this licence from GPL version 3, is quoted in dalicc:additionalClauses as in the base record.

14 findings

info Rubric 1 spdx:licenseId applied

File name, record id, SPDX identifier and the local name of the IRI are all AGPL-3.0-or-later. The other half of the pair is the record AGPL-3.0, whose file name is the older descriptive id and whose SPDX identifier is AGPL-3.0-only. The deprecated short form AGPL-3.0+ is carried here as a dct:alternative so that a search for it reaches this record.
major Rubric 10 dalicc:variantOf applied

The record copies AGPL-3.0 statement for statement. What differs: the identifier, the SPDX identifier, dct:title, dct:alternative, dalicc:orLaterVersionOption (true here, false there) and the pair dalicc:variantKind "version-option" with dalicc:variantOf dalicclib:AGPL-3.0. The foaf:logo of the base record is kept, because it is the logo of the same licence text.
major Rubric 7 dalicc:orLaterVersionOption applied

Section 14 is the clause the flag stands for: "If the Program specifies that a certain numbered version of the GNU Affero General Public License "or any later version" applies to it, you have the option of following the terms and conditions either of that numbered version or of any later version published by the Free Software Foundation." cc:jurisdiction stays dalicc:worldwide and dalicc:validityType stays dalicc:perpetual: the text limits neither the territory nor the term.
major Rubric 3 odrl:permission applied

Section 4 grants conveying verbatim copies, section 5 conveying modified source versions, section 6 conveying object code, and section 4 adds: "You may charge any price or no price for each copy that you convey, and you may offer support or warranty protection for a fee." The ten permissions of the base record follow from those sentences: odrl:reproduce, odrl:distribute, odrl:modify, odrl:derive, cc:DerivativeWorks, dalicc:ModifiedWorks, odrl:display, odrl:present, cc:CommercialUse and dalicc:chargeDistributionFee.
major Rubric 5 odrl:duty applied

Section 5(c) requires the whole work to be licensed under this License to anyone who comes into possession of a copy, so cc:ShareAlike is a duty of the licence itself. Attribution, notice and source-code duties hang on distribute, modify and derive, and dalicc:modificationNotice on modify and derive, from section 5(a): "The work must carry prominent notices stating that you modified it, and giving a relevant date."
minor Rubric 4 odrl:prohibition applied

dalicc:ChangeLicense is prohibited, which is the whole-work copyleft shape, and dalicc:promote is prohibited although the text has no trademark or endorsement clause. Both come from the base record.
info Rubric 6 dalicc:additionalClauses applied

The warranty disclaimer of section 15 and the limitation of liability of section 16 are kept as separate literals, the fee sentence of section 4 is dalicc:WarrantyOrLiabilityAcceptance, and the two paragraphs of section 13 are quoted in dalicc:additionalClauses. All of them are byte for byte the literals of the base record, because the text is the same document.
info Rubric 2 odrl:target applied

The asset collection carries dcmitype:Software, as in the base record. The Affero GPL governs programs, and section 13 is about a program users interact with over a network.
info Rubric 9 record none

The consistency check of app.services.composer, run with licensedata/dependencygraph/dg_default.ttl, reports 0 conflicts for this record.
minor Rubric 8 odrl:permission proposed

The defining clause of this licence is prose only in both records of the pair. Section 13: "Notwithstanding any other provision of this License, if you modify the Program, your modified version must prominently offer all users interacting with it remotely through a computer network (if your version supports such interaction) an opportunity to receive the Corresponding Source of your version by providing access to the Corresponding Source from a network server at no charge, through some standard or customary means of facilitating copying of software." When the base record was reviewed, no term covered a network deployment; dalicc:networkUseTrigger now exists in the vocabulary and carries the duties such a deployment fires. Adding it here alone would break the rule that this record equals its base, so it is proposed for both records of the pair together.
gap Rubric 8 dalicc:additionalClauses none

The same clauses that are gaps in GPL version 3 are gaps here, because the text is that text plus section 13: the anti-circumvention waiver of section 3 and the Installation Information duty of section 6. Proposed terms: dalicc:antiCircumventionWaiver and dalicc:installationInformation. The termination clause of section 8, the patent grant of section 11 and the litigation bar of section 10 could be modelled with terms that already exist, and are proposed for the GPL version 3 records in the same way; here too they belong to both records of the pair at once.
minor Rubric 4 odrl:prohibition applied

dalicc:promote was prohibited and no sentence of this text supports it. The statement was the library's reading of a legal default, that a copyright licence which says nothing about endorsement grants no right to it, and it sat in 519 of 581 records as a house convention. That reading is now an adopted dalicc:DefaultRule of the core dependency graph, which supplies it to every licence that is silent about the action, so a compatibility check reaches the same answer and the record states only what the text states. Removed on 2026-09-23; see section 13 of docs/LICENSE_REVIEW.md.
minor Rubric 6 dalicc:WarrantyOrLiabilityAcceptance applied

dalicc:WarrantyOrLiabilityAcceptance held the whole sentence of Section 4, "You may charge any price or no price for each copy that you convey, and you may offer support or warranty protection for a fee." Its first half is the permission to charge for a copy, which the record states as dalicc:chargeDistributionFee, and not a warranty clause. The literal now quotes only the second half, "you may offer support or warranty protection for a fee".
major Rubric 10 dalicc:compatibleWith applied

Section 13 reads: "Notwithstanding any other provision of this License, you have permission to link or combine any covered work with a work licensed under version 3 of the GNU General Public License into a single combined work, and to convey the resulting work." A work under this licence can therefore go into a combined work released under GPL-3.0; the GPL text says the same the other way round. dalicc:compatibleWith names GPL-3.0-only, GPL-3.0-or-later.

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History

This license model has 2 versions. Version 2 is the one served today; every earlier version keeps its own address, so a conclusion drawn from one of them can still be checked against it.

Version 2 current2026-09-24 Giray Havur

The changes since version 1 left endorsement to the default rule of the core dependency graph, recorded which sentence of the text each statement rests on, corrected it against its text on 2026-09-24, named the license the record itself is published under and recorded the licenses a work under it may be released under.

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9 changes
- removed prohibition dalicc:promote
  
  Manual edit The endorsement prohibition rested on no sentence of the text; the default rule for endorsement now supplies it.
- changed permission dalicc:chargeDistributionFee
  
  was permission dalicc:chargeDistributionFee
  
  Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "You may charge any price or no price for each copy that you convey, and you may offer support or warranty protection for a fee."
- changed permission odrl:derive with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, cc:SourceCode, dalicc:modificationNotice]
  
  was permission odrl:derive with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, cc:SourceCode, dalicc:modificationNotice]
  
  Manual edit Its duty dalicc:modificationNotice quotes "The work must carry prominent notices stating that you modified it, and giving a relevant date."
- changed permission odrl:modify with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, cc:SourceCode, dalicc:modificationNotice]
  
  was permission odrl:modify with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, cc:SourceCode, dalicc:modificationNotice]
  
  Manual edit Its duty dalicc:modificationNotice quotes "The work must carry prominent notices stating that you modified it, and giving a relevant date."
- changed permission odrl:reproduce
  
  was permission odrl:reproduce
  
  Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "You may charge any price or no price for each copy that you convey, and you may offer support or warranty protection for a fee."
- changed dalicc:WarrantyOrLiabilityAcceptance "you may offer support or warranty protection for a fee"
  
  was dalicc:WarrantyOrLiabilityAcceptance "You may charge any price or no price for each copy that you convey, and you may offer support or warranty protection for a fee."
  
  Manual edit The first half of the Section 4 sentence, "You may charge any price or no price for each copy that you convey", is the permission to charge for a copy, not a warranty clause.
- added dct:license <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>
  
  Manual edit Every record is published under CC BY 4.0. cc:license names the record DALICC keeps of that licence; dct:license now names it by the address Creative Commons publishes it at, so that a consumer matching the canonical IRI finds it.
- added dalicc:compatibleWith dalicclib:GPL-3.0-only
  
  Manual edit Section 13 reads: "Notwithstanding any other provision of this License, you have permission to link or combine any covered work with a work licensed under version 3 of the GNU General Public License into a single combined work, and to convey the resulting work." A work under this licence can therefore go into a combined work released under GPL-3.0; the GPL text says the same the other way round.
- added dalicc:compatibleWith dalicclib:GPL-3.0-or-later
  
  Manual edit Section 13 reads: "Notwithstanding any other provision of this License, you have permission to link or combine any covered work with a work licensed under version 3 of the GNU General Public License into a single combined work, and to convey the resulting work." A work under this licence can therefore go into a combined work released under GPL-3.0; the GPL text says the same the other way round.
Version 1

Created from the license text on 2026-09-22 (GNU copyleft family (GPL, LGPL, AGPL, FDL)).

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Every change names the reason behind it: a finding of the content review, one of its library-wide decisions, the metadata that review wrote onto every record, or a hand edit. None of it is legal advice.

Nothing on this page is legal advice. What a license means is decided by its text; ask a legal advisor before you rely on it.