Legal

Open-source notices

Mirrors NOTICE.md in the repository. If the two ever disagree, the repository is authoritative.

Scope of the AGPL-3.0 grant

LICENSE (AGPL-3.0) covers the alcoia browser extension client. everything under alcoia/ except alcoia/server/ and alcoia/src/libs/. plus the training material under tldr classifier/.

PathStatus
alcoia/server/Not covered by this grant. Proprietary; a separate program.
alcoia/src/libs/Third-party code under its own licence. see below.

Bundled third-party code

ComponentLicenceCopyright
WebGazer (webgazer.min.js)GPLv32016 Brown WebGazer Team
pdf.jsApache-2.02023 Mozilla Foundation
JSZipMIT / GPLv3 (dual); bundles pako (MIT)Stuk
Literata (fonts)SIL OFL 1.12017 The Literata Project Authors
Plus Jakarta Sans (fonts)SIL OFL 1.12020 The Plus Jakarta Sans Project Authors

Both fonts are latin and latin-ext subsets, roman and italic, variable weight, unmodified from upstream. Their OFL licence files ship alongside the binaries in the repository, and this site self-hosts the same font files under the same terms.

What WebGazer's licence means here

  1. While WebGazer ships inside the extension package, the client can never be closed-source. The shipped extension is a combined copyleft work: the complete corresponding source must be offered to anyone who receives it, including via any extension store.
  2. AGPL-3.0 is compatible with GPLv3 under §13 of each licence. no change needed to LICENSE.
  3. The server is unaffected: it's a separate program in a separate process, communicating over a network API.
  4. AGPL's network clause does almost nothing here. the extension runs on your machine and you already have the code; nobody deploys a browser extension as a network service. It should not be cited as a deterrent in marketing or documentation.

WebGazer's official maintenance ended 24 February 2026. It still works; updates are not guaranteed. An exit path toward a permissively-licensed alternative is logged on the roadmap, not scheduled.

Full text

The complete, current notice. including anything updated since this page was last synced. lives in the repository: github.com/alcoia-group/alcoia/blob/main/NOTICE.md. The AGPL-3.0 licence text itself: github.com/alcoia-group/alcoia/blob/main/LICENSE.