L02-GN: Yes
Rationale
GNUnet 0.20.0 COPYING contains AGPLv3 and the transport source expressly applies AGPLv3 or later with GNUnet e.V. copyright attribution. AGPLv3 section 11 expressly grants a worldwide royalty-free license from contributors for essential claims covering their contributor versions.
Assessment method
Express patent-clause and applicability review under the common holder-bounded L02 rule
Source context
Version-pinned project licenses and attributable source notices; documentary review 2026-10-17
Outstanding qualification
AGPL network-source and other compliance conditions remain. The FSF authorship of the license text is not a grant of patents held by unrelated parties. Published implementation-bound grant, not a blanket royalty-free promise for arbitrary independent reimplementations. Credit only claims controlled by the declaring contributors within the grant; no third-party, dependency or underlying-layer clearance is inferred. License compliance remains required. No finding that a patent exists, is valid or is infringed, and no legal-enforceability opinion.
Public sources
- https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnunet/gnunet-0.20.0.tar.gz
- https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnunet/gnunet-0.20.0.tar.gz
- https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.txt
Editorial evidence references
The following identifiers refer to research records not included in this public package; they are not public links.
- round373-sources.json