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You CAN:
- Use TextStack for personal, internal, or community use, free of charge
- Self-host it on your own infrastructure
- Modify it for your own use
- Distribute modified versions, provided you license them under AGPL-3.0
- Study how it works and learn from the code
You MUST:
- Share your modifications under AGPL-3.0 if you let others use them (including network access, per AGPL §13)
- Preserve copyright notices and the LICENSE file in any redistribution
- Make source code available to anyone you let interact with your modified version, even over a network
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- Sublicense under more permissive terms (MIT, Apache, etc.)
- Run a modified version as a hosted commercial service without publishing your modifications and source code
- Remove the AGPL terms from derivative works
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- Free Dictionary API responses: public domain
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- All third-party dependencies retain their respective licenses; see package.json, *.csproj, and Directory.Packages.props for full lists