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GNU Affero General Public License

Also known as AGPL, AGPL v3, Affero General Public License, GNU AGPL, GNU AGPL Version 3, GNU AGPL v3, GNU Affero GPL, GNU Affero General Public License Version 3.

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

Permissions

  • Commercial use from the text Using the work to generate income, directly or indirectly, for example by selling it or by using it in advertising.
  • Derivative works from the text Distributing an adaptation of the work and making it available to the public.
  • Derive from the text Creating a new work from the work, such as a translation, adaptation or arrangement of it or of a part of it.

    Duties

    • Attribution from the text Giving credit to the copyright holders or authors of the work, in the form the licensor asks for.
    • Modification notice from the text Marking a changed work as changed, saying how it differs from the original and keeping earlier notices of change.
    • Notice from the text Notice: keeping the license and copyright notices with every copy.
    • Source code from the text Providing access to the source code of the work with every copy distributed.
  • Display from the text Showing the work to the public without making a copy the viewer keeps.
  • Distribute from the text Providing copies of the work to the public or to anyone else.

    Duties

    • Attribution from the text Giving credit to the copyright holders or authors of the work, in the form the licensor asks for.
    • Notice from the text Notice: keeping the license and copyright notices with every copy.
    • Source code from the text Providing access to the source code of the work with every copy distributed.
  • Modified works from the text Distributing a modified version of the work that does not amount to a new, derivative work.
  • Modify from the text Altering the work, for example by updating it, without creating a new work; an alteration that creates a new work is Derive.

    Duties

    • Attribution from the text Giving credit to the copyright holders or authors of the work, in the form the licensor asks for.
    • Modification notice from the text Marking a changed work as changed, saying how it differs from the original and keeping earlier notices of change.
    • Notice from the text Notice: keeping the license and copyright notices with every copy.
    • Source code from the text Providing access to the source code of the work with every copy distributed.
  • Present from the text Performing the work in public, including by broadcast or other communication to the public.
  • Reproduce from the text Making copies of the work in any form.

Prohibitions

  • Change license from the text Not permitted: Change license. Replacing the license of the work, or of an adaptation, with another license, or changing its terms.
  • Promote from the text Not permitted: Promote. Using the name or trademarks of the licensor or of contributors to endorse or promote a product.

License-wide duties

  • Share alike from the text Adaptations have to be licensed under the same license or one the license names as compatible.

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.

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
https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/CC-BY-4.0
Publisher
GNU Affero General Public License
SPDX identifier
AGPL-3.0 on the SPDX license list
DALICC identifier
AGPL-3.0

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.

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.

  1. Version 2 current2026-09-24 Giray Havur

    The content review of 2026-09-15 added 1 permission and 1 statement, changed 2 identification details, recorded the relation to the record this one was adapted from and recorded the review state. Later changes brought it in line with its family and its text in the verification of 2026-09-15, corrected it against its text on 2026-09-23 and 2026-09-24, left endorsement to the default rule of the core dependency graph, recorded which sentence of the text each statement rests on, 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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    18 changes

    • added dalicc:orLaterVersionOption "false"^^xsd:boolean

      Review decision Review decision 6: the four GNU records model the '-only' reading, so the or-later option is recorded as false rather than left unsaid.

    • added dalicc:reviewStatus dalicc:Reviewed

      Review state Every record records how far it has come in the editorial workflow and when it was last checked against the legal text.

    • added dalicc:reviewedOn "2026-09-15"^^xsd:date

      Review state Every record records how far it has come in the editorial workflow and when it was last checked against the legal text.

    • added dalicc:variantKind "version"

      Port relation The 2026-09-15 review made the relation between a jurisdiction port and the record it was adapted from explicit in the data.

    • changed dct:publisher "Free Software Foundation"

      was dct:publisher "GNU Affero General Public License"

      Review finding dct:publisher held the string "GNU Affero General Public License", that is the name of the license, not its publisher. Corrected to the Free Software Foundation, in line with the other three GNU records.

    • added permission dalicc:chargeDistributionFee

      Review finding Section 4 states: "You may charge any price or no price for each copy that you convey." Added the missing dalicc:chargeDistributionFee permission.

    • changed spdx:licenseId "AGPL-3.0-only"

      was spdx:licenseId "AGPL-3.0"

      Review finding The record carried the deprecated SPDX id "AGPL-3.0". SPDX replaced it with AGPL-3.0-only and AGPL-3.0-or-later; the record models no "any later version" option, so AGPL-3.0-only is the matching id.

    • added 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 review's finding on family consistency: the record did not carry section 4 of the text, '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', which every GNU record now carries.

    • added dalicc:curePeriod "30 days"

      Manual edit Section 13 is modelled at last: a dalicc:networkUseTrigger permission carrying a cc:SourceCode duty, for "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". Section 8 gives dalicc:terminatesOnBreach and the cure period, "you cure the violation prior to 30 days after your receipt of the notice", and section 11 of the GNU General Public License version 3, which this licence incorporates, gives the patent grant: "Each contributor grants you a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free patent license under the contributor's essential patent claims".

    • added dalicc:terminatesOnBreach "true"^^xsd:boolean

      Manual edit Section 13 is modelled at last: a dalicc:networkUseTrigger permission carrying a cc:SourceCode duty, for "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". Section 8 gives dalicc:terminatesOnBreach and the cure period, "you cure the violation prior to 30 days after your receipt of the notice", and section 11 of the GNU General Public License version 3, which this licence incorporates, gives the patent grant: "Each contributor grants you a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free patent license under the contributor's essential patent claims".

    • added permission dalicc:networkUseTrigger with duties [cc:SourceCode]

      Manual edit Section 13 is modelled at last: a dalicc:networkUseTrigger permission carrying a cc:SourceCode duty, for "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". Section 8 gives dalicc:terminatesOnBreach and the cure period, "you cure the violation prior to 30 days after your receipt of the notice", and section 11 of the GNU General Public License version 3, which this licence incorporates, gives the patent grant: "Each contributor grants you a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free patent license under the contributor's essential patent claims".

    • added permission dalicc:patentGrant

      Manual edit Section 13 is modelled at last: a dalicc:networkUseTrigger permission carrying a cc:SourceCode duty, for "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". Section 8 gives dalicc:terminatesOnBreach and the cure period, "you cure the violation prior to 30 days after your receipt of the notice", and section 11 of the GNU General Public License version 3, which this licence incorporates, gives the patent grant: "Each contributor grants you a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free patent license under the contributor's essential patent claims".

    • 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 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.

  2. Version 1

    The version this model had before the content review of 2026-09-15.

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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.

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