Site advertises AGPL-3.0, but the product has been MIT since 4ef5f58fc

[rodrigorodriguez]

Summary

The site advertises AGPL-3.0 as the licence of the product. The product repository was deliberately relicensed AGPL-3.0 → MIT in generalbots/generalbots@4ef5f58fc (2026-09-12), and the surrounding metadata has since been normalised to match.

MIT is the authoritative side. This issue tracks bringing the site into line.

Evidence

The generalbots/generalbots repository states MIT in every place it can:

Signal	Value
LICENSE files	7 of 7 say MIT
Cargo.toml manifests	121 of 121 declare license = "MIT"
package.json	botui and its vendored manifest both MIT
Relicense commit	4ef5f58fc — "chore: relicense from AGPL-3.0 to MIT"
AGENTS.md	now carries a licence rule so this cannot drift again

Every remaining AGPL mention inside the product repo is a correct third-party attribution — MinIO, Stalwart, Forgejo, Garage, Skytable are genuinely AGPL/GPL, and those notices must stay.

This repository is the last place still claiming AGPL.

Scope

69 files, 1,794 lines:

Kind	Count
HTML pages	55
lang/*.json	7 of 7 locales
i18n/*.json	7 of 7 locales
i18n keys containing agpl	3

Affected page templates include index.html, pricing, terms, hosting, versions, partials, and roughly 45 apps-style product pages (chat, crm, drive, email, meet, video, vision, whatsapp, vibecode, …).

The three i18n keys

home.trust_agpl                                                          = "AGPL-3.0"
home.agpl_3_0_no_vendor_lock_in_self_host_community_driven_sin            = "AGPL-3.0. No vendor lock-in. Self-host. Community-driven since 2017."
home.agpl_3_0_licensed_no_vendor_lock_in_full_transparency_sel            = "AGPL-3.0 licensed. No vendor lock-in. Full transparency. Self-host on your own infrastructure."

Per this repo's own AGENTS.md, renaming a key requires updating the data-i18n attribute in HTML and all locale files, and removing stale keys.

Other claim patterns found

• Comparison-table rows: Source access → Full (AGPLv3)
• Body copy: "General Bots is fully open source under AGPLv3 — no proprietary APIs…"
• Meta descriptions and JSON-LD
• Licence badges: ✅ AGPL

⚠️ One claim needs a product decision before it is changed

hosting/index.html (lines 326–327) and both i18n trees advertise:

AGPL + partner terms
AGPL + Partnerbedingungen
AGPL + パートナー規約
AGPL + 合作伙伴条款

That is a dual-licensing offer, not a licence name. AGPL's network copyleft is what creates the leverage to sell alternative terms; under MIT there is no copyleft obligation to licence around. Whoever owns this pricing page should consciously decide what replaces it — MIT alone, or a separately-licensed commercial tier — because a find-and-replace would silently delete an advertised offering.

A note on the i18n layout

AGENTS.md in this repo documents lang/*.json as the only i18n location, but i18n/*.json also exists with the same 7 locales and the same AGPL strings. Both trees need updating, and the maintenance guide should probably mention the second one.

Reproduction

git clone https://github.com/generalbots/website
cd website

# Every file still claiming AGPL
grep -rlE 'AGPL' . --exclude-dir=.git | wc -l        # expect 69

# The keys that must be renamed across all locale files
python3 -c "import json;print([k for k in json.load(open('lang/en.json')) if 'agpl' in k.lower()])"

# The dual-licensing claim that needs a decision
grep -rn 'AGPL + ' --include='*.json' --include='*.html' . | grep -v '\.git/'

Acceptance criteria

• No page or locale file describes the product as AGPL-3.0 / AGPLv3
• The three agpl keys are renamed, with the data-i18n attributes and all 14 locale files updated together
• No stale agpl keys remain in either lang/ or i18n/
• hosting/index.html and its translations reflect a deliberate decision on "AGPL + partner terms"
• terms and privacy pages reviewed, since licence terms may be referenced there
• Third-party AGPL attributions, if the site carries any, are left intact
• SEO checklist in this repo's AGENTS.md still passes for every modified page (unique titles, canonical, OG tags)

Reference

• Product repo, MIT licence: https://github.com/generalbots/generalbots/blob/main/LICENSE
• Relicense commit: generalbots/generalbots@4ef5f58fc