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License and Trademark

sputlab edited this page Nov 13, 2026 · 1 revision

License and Trademark

Code

NodeWave is released under the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3 or (at your option) any later version (SPDX AGPL-3.0-or-later). The full text is in LICENSE and every source file carries the identifier in its header. Earlier releases (before 0.12.3) stay under the licence they were published with (GPL-3.0).

The vendored Codec2 sources keep their own licence (LGPL-2.1, see app/src/main/cpp/codec2/COPYING).

Name and logo

The licence covers the code, not the brand. The name "NodeWave" and the "NW" logo (the app icon) are trademarks reserved by the author. Nothing in the AGPL grants a right to use them.

You are free to fork, modify, distribute and even sell the software under the terms of the AGPL. A fork distributed under its own responsibility, commercially or not, must change the name and replace the icon and logo with its own from scratch, so that nobody mistakes it for the official NodeWave app.

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