License library / Copyleft software
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
As the GPL, plus: if you modify the software and let users interact with it over a network, you must offer them its corresponding source.
SPDX AGPL-3.0-only Version 3.0 Official text
Uses at a glance
| commercial use | Permitted |
|---|---|
| production deployment | Permitted |
| modification / derivatives | Permitted |
| redistribution | Permitted |
| sublicensing | Prohibited |
| AI model training | Needs human review |
| inference-time use (RAG, prompts, generation) | Permitted |
Why some uses need review
AI model training. The license grants broad rights but attaches conditions (such as keeping notices) to copies and adaptations. Whether a trained model, or its output, is a copy or adaptation that carries those conditions is legally unsettled, and in some places training may fall under an exception such as fair use. A human reviewer should confirm this use for your case.
Duties
- give attribution / keep the notice
- license notice
- state changes
- release distributed derivatives under the same license
- provide source code with distributed derivatives
- network source offer
Notes
- Section 13: users interacting with a modified version over a network must be offered its source.
Resources under this license
No resource in the registry is published under this license yet.
For agents
curl -s https://www.rightshold.com/v1/licenses/check -H 'content-type: application/json' \
-d '{"license":"AGPL-3.0-only","intended_use":{"commercial_use":true,"deployment":true}}'Reading version 2026-10-09 by the Rightshold rights desk; reference hash e7e71749391fdba1950dbae6062408e331edcf55078434e7eb9a1b33f10b410b identifies this license version. The license text governs; this is not legal advice.