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<h1>Project Tick GPL v3 vs. GNU Affero GPL v3 \u2014 Section Correspondence</h1>
<p>Redline mapping · April 2026</p>
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<div class="legend-item"><div class="legend-swatch sw-same"></div> Substantially identical</div>
<div class="legend-item"><div class="legend-swatch sw-similar"></div> Substantially similar (reworded / reorganized)</div>
<div class="legend-item"><div class="legend-swatch sw-mod"></div> Derived but materially modified</div>
<div class="legend-item"><div class="legend-swatch sw-novel"></div> Novel \u2014 no AGPL counterpart</div>
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<div>PT-GPL v3 (Project Tick, 7 Apr 2026)</div>
<div>AGPL v3 (FSF, 19 Nov 2007)</div>
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<div class="cell-label">PT-GPL · Preamble</div>
<div class="cell-title">Preamble</div>
<div class="cell-body">Shorter. States copyleft purpose, equal/non-discriminatory access, and summarizes patent grant. Omits AGPL's historical narrative about network server gap.</div>
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<div class="cell-label">AGPL · Preamble</div>
<div class="cell-title">Preamble</div>
<div class="cell-body">Longer; explains the FSF copyleft philosophy, the network-server loophole in GPL v3, and AGPL's purpose in closing it. Includes history of Affero GPL.</div>
<div class="note">Concept carried over; text materially different.</div>
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<div class="cell-label">PT-GPL · §0</div>
<div class="cell-title">Definitions</div>
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Covers: This License, Work, You, Operate, Recipient, Modify, Main Component, Convey, <ins>Library Work</ins>, <ins>Combined Work</ins>, Appropriate Legal Notices.<br><br>
Core definitions ("This License," "Modify," "Convey," "Main Component," "Appropriate Legal Notices") track AGPL closely, mostly reworded.
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<div class="cell-label">AGPL · §0</div>
<div class="cell-title">Definitions</div>
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Covers: This License, Copyright, The Program, modify, covered work, propagate, convey, interactive user interface / Appropriate Legal Notices.<br><br>
<del>Library Work</del> and <del>Combined Work</del> not defined here (no LGPL-style section in AGPL).
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<div class="cell-label">PT-GPL · §1</div>
<div class="cell-title">Source Code and Corresponding Source</div>
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Tracks AGPL §1 closely. Adds: <ins>Source Code does not include deliberately obfuscated, minified, generated, or encrypted forms</ins> unless readable form also provided.
Corresponding Source definition is reorganized but substantively similar; adds explicit carve-out for general-purpose system admin and hardware provisioning materials.
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<div class="cell-label">AGPL · §1</div>
<div class="cell-title">Source Code</div>
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Standard definitions of Source Code, Object Code, Standard Interface, System Libraries, Corresponding Source, Corresponding Source for source-form works.
<del>No anti-obfuscation clause.</del>
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<div class="cell-label">PT-GPL · §2</div>
<div class="cell-title">Conveying Modified Source Versions</div>
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Maps to AGPL §5 (a)\u2013(d). Reworded but substantively identical obligations: notice of modification, license notice, whole-work licensing under this License, Appropriate Legal Notices requirement.
<ins>Adds explicit prohibition on contractual/technical measures restricting Recipients</ins> (subsumes AGPL §5(d) re: interfaces).
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<div class="cell-label">AGPL · §5</div>
<div class="cell-title">Conveying Modified Source Versions</div>
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Conditions (a)\u2013(d): notice of modification, license notice, whole-work licensing, Appropriate Legal Notices in interactive interfaces.
Also covers aggregation. <del>No explicit technical-measures prohibition (that is in §3).</del>
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<div class="cell-label">PT-GPL · §3</div>
<div class="cell-title">Conveying Non-Source Forms</div>
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Substantially mirrors AGPL §6 methods (a)\u2013(d): physical medium, written offer (3 years), network download, peer-to-peer. Adds explicit statement that <ins>technical/contractual/policy measures that delay or condition access constitute non-compliance</ins>.
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<div class="cell-label">AGPL · §6</div>
<div class="cell-title">Conveying Non-Source Forms</div>
<div class="cell-body">
Methods (a)\u2013(e): physical medium, written offer, individual copies with offer, network server, peer-to-peer. Includes User Product / Installation Information subsections.
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<div class="cell-label">PT-GPL · §3.1</div>
<div class="cell-title">User Products</div>
<div class="cell-body">Condensed version of AGPL §6 User Product / Installation Information provisions. Substantially identical obligation; drops AGPL's detailed "consumer product" definition.</div>
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<div class="cell-label">AGPL · §6 (User Product subsection)</div>
<div class="cell-title">User Products / Installation Information</div>
<div class="cell-body">Lengthy subsection defining "User Product," "Installation Information," and conditions for conveying in user products. More granular than PT-GPL §3.1.</div>
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<div class="cell-label">PT-GPL · §3.2</div>
<div class="cell-title">Network Interaction</div>
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Direct counterpart to AGPL §13. If you modify and serve over a network, you must offer Corresponding Source. Adds: offer must be made through a <ins>prominent and reasonably accessible notice in the UI or service documentation</ins>.
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<div class="cell-label">AGPL · §13</div>
<div class="cell-title">Remote Network Interaction</div>
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Same core obligation. Also addresses combining with GPL v3 works. <del>PT-GPL drops the GPL v3 combination paragraph</del> (no "or any later version" GPL compatibility language).
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<div class="cell-label">PT-GPL · §3.3</div>
<div class="cell-title">Technological Protection Measures</div>
<div class="cell-body">Tracks AGPL §3 (anti-circumvention). Adds explicit carve-out: <ins>security/integrity/authenticity mechanisms are permitted</ins> so long as they don't block access to Corresponding Source.</div>
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<div class="cell-label">AGPL · §3</div>
<div class="cell-title">Protecting Users' Legal Rights From Anti-Circumvention Law</div>
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Waives right to enforce TPM laws against exercise of this License. <del>No security-mechanism carve-out.</del>
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<div class="cell-label">PT-GPL · §4</div>
<div class="cell-title">Termination</div>
<div class="cell-body">Substantially identical to AGPL §8. Same 60-day and 30-day cure periods. Same provisional/permanent reinstatement structure. Condensed into a single paragraph.</div>
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<div class="cell-label">AGPL · §8</div>
<div class="cell-title">Termination</div>
<div class="cell-body">Three separate paragraphs covering: automatic termination, 60-day reinstatement, 30-day first-notice cure. Substantively identical to PT-GPL §4.</div>
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<div class="divider">Acceptance</div>
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<div class="cell-label">PT-GPL · §5</div>
<div class="cell-title">Acceptance Not Required for Possession or Use</div>
<div class="cell-body">Substantially identical to AGPL §9. Adds explicit enumeration of non-acceptance acts: <ins>downloading, receiving, storing, executing</ins>.</div>
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<div class="cell-label">AGPL · §9</div>
<div class="cell-title">Acceptance Not Required for Having Copies</div>
<div class="cell-body">Same principle. Running a copy or P2P receipt does not require acceptance; modifying or propagating does.</div>
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<div class="cell-label">PT-GPL · §6</div>
<div class="cell-title">Automatic Licensing of Downstream Recipients</div>
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Tracks AGPL §10. Adds: <ins>license arises solely by operation of this License, not by separate agreement</ins>; <ins>access to Corresponding Source may not be conditioned on accepting restricting terms</ins>.
Entity Transaction language substantially identical.
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<div class="cell-label">AGPL · §10</div>
<div class="cell-title">Automatic Licensing of Downstream Recipients</div>
<div class="cell-body">Automatic downstream license; entity transaction rights transfer; no further restrictions. <del>Does not include PT-GPL's explicit "arises by operation of law" clause.</del></div>
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<div class="cell-label">PT-GPL · §7</div>
<div class="cell-title">Patents</div>
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Based on AGPL §11 but materially modified:<br>
\u2014 Contributor patent grant is substantively similar.<br>
\u2014 <ins>Adds patent retaliation clause</ins>: if you sue alleging the Work infringes a patent, your patent licenses under this License terminate.<br>
\u2014 <ins>Discriminatory patent arrangements void</ins>; patent licenses must be non-discriminatory to all Recipients.<br>
\u2014 AGPL's detailed "knowingly relying" and "discriminatory" definitions dropped; replaced with cleaner general rules.
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<div class="cell-label">AGPL · §11</div>
<div class="cell-title">Patents</div>
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Contributor patent grant; "essential patent claims" definition; patent license non-assertion; detailed "discriminatory" patent license prohibition tied to 28 March 2007 cutoff.
<del>No patent retaliation/termination clause.</del>
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<div class="cell-label">PT-GPL · §8 \u2014 Novel</div>
<div class="cell-title">Linking and Combined Works</div>
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No AGPL counterpart. Derived from LGPL concepts.<br><br>
A Library Work may be included in a Combined Work without copyleft infecting the independent portions, provided: (a) Library Work and modifications stay under this License; (b) Recipients can relink/replace the Library Work; (c) no measures forbid relinking.<br><br>
Clarifies that mere aggregation, IPC, network protocols, or standard interface calls do not create a Combined Work.
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<div class="cell-label">AGPL \u2014 No equivalent</div>
<div class="cell-body">AGPL has no LGPL-style library/linking exception. Dynamic or static linking to AGPL code triggers full copyleft under AGPL.</div>
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<div class="cell-label">PT-GPL · §9</div>
<div class="cell-title">Form of Corresponding Source</div>
<div class="cell-body">Condensed standalone section: Corresponding Source must be complete and reasonably usable with commonly available tools; access may not be conditioned on inconsistent terms. Drawn from scattered provisions in AGPL §§1, 6.</div>
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<div class="cell-label">AGPL · §§1, 6 (distributed)</div>
<div class="cell-title">Source Code / Conveying Non-Source (combined)</div>
<div class="cell-body">These requirements appear embedded within §1 (definition of Corresponding Source) and §6 (conveyance methods). PT-GPL §9 consolidates them.</div>
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<div class="divider">No Surrender / Protection of Contributor Rights</div>
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<div class="cell-label">PT-GPL · §10</div>
<div class="cell-title">Protection of Contributor Rights</div>
<div class="cell-body">Substantially identical to AGPL §12. Cannot convey if you cannot comply simultaneously with this License and another obligation. Adds: <ins>no retroactive restriction/revocation of contributor rights by any arrangement</ins>.</div>
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<div class="cell-label">AGPL · §12</div>
<div class="cell-title">No Surrender of Others' Freedom</div>
<div class="cell-body">Substantially identical core: conflicting conditions do not excuse non-compliance; if you can't comply with both this License and another obligation, you may not convey at all.</div>
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<div class="divider">Uniform Exercise of Rights (novel)</div>
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<div class="cell-label">PT-GPL · §11 \u2014 Novel</div>
<div class="cell-title">Uniform Exercise of Rights</div>
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No direct AGPL counterpart.<br><br>
Rights apply equally to all Recipients and all fields of endeavor. Clarifies: this License requires source disclosure only of the Work and Modified Versions \u2014 <ins>not of independent or unrelated components merely used alongside the Work</ins>. Aimed at limiting over-broad copyleft claims in service/SaaS contexts.
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<div class="cell-label">AGPL \u2014 No equivalent</div>
<div class="cell-body">AGPL has no field-of-use equality clause or explicit limiting clause on scope of disclosure obligations relative to co-deployed independent components.</div>
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<div class="divider">Disclaimer of Warranty</div>
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<div class="cell-label">PT-GPL · §12</div>
<div class="cell-title">Disclaimer of Warranty</div>
<div class="cell-body">Substantially identical to AGPL §15. Adds "TITLE" and "NON-INFRINGEMENT" to list of disclaimed warranties. Adds "REMEDIATION" to cost assumption clause. Standard boilerplate.</div>
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<div class="cell-label">AGPL · §15</div>
<div class="cell-title">Disclaimer of Warranty</div>
<div class="cell-body">Standard "AS IS" warranty disclaimer. Substantively identical.</div>
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<div class="divider">Limitation of Liability</div>
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<div class="cell-label">PT-GPL · §13</div>
<div class="cell-title">Limitation of Liability</div>
<div class="cell-body">Substantially identical to AGPL §16. Adds "EXEMPLARY" and "PUNITIVE" to the damages list. Standard boilerplate.</div>
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<div class="cell-label">AGPL · §16</div>
<div class="cell-title">Limitation of Liability</div>
<div class="cell-body">Standard consequential/incidental damages exclusion. Substantively identical.</div>
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<div class="divider">Interpretation of Warranty/Liability Sections</div>
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<div class="cell-label">PT-GPL · §14</div>
<div class="cell-title">Interpretation of Sections 12 and 13</div>
<div class="cell-body">Substantially identical to AGPL §17. Local law governs where warranty/liability disclaimers cannot be given full effect; courts approximate absolute waiver.</div>
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<div class="cell-label">AGPL · §17</div>
<div class="cell-title">Interpretation of Sections 15 and 16</div>
<div class="cell-body">Substantially identical.</div>
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<div class="divider">Additional Permissions</div>
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<div class="cell-label">PT-GPL · §15</div>
<div class="cell-title">Additional Permissions</div>
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Drawn from AGPL §7 (Additional Terms), but narrowed: covers only permissive additional permissions, not AGPL §7's list of allowable non-permissive additional terms (warranty disclaimers, attribution, misrepresentation, publicity, trademark, indemnification). <del>Non-permissive "further restrictions" framework dropped.</del>
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<div class="cell-label">AGPL · §7</div>
<div class="cell-title">Additional Terms</div>
<div class="cell-body">Covers both additional permissions and allowable non-permissive terms (six categories: warranty, attribution, misrepresentation notice, publicity, trademark, indemnification). "Further restrictions" defined and made removable.</div>
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<div class="divider">Conveying Verbatim Copies</div>
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<div class="cell-label">PT-GPL · §16</div>
<div class="cell-title">Conveying Verbatim Copies</div>
<div class="cell-body">Substantially identical to AGPL §4. Copyright notice, license notice, no-warranty notice, copy of license. Charging a fee for transfer permitted.</div>
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<div class="cell same">
<div class="cell-label">AGPL · §4</div>
<div class="cell-title">Conveying Verbatim Copies</div>
<div class="cell-body">Substantially identical.</div>
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<div class="divider">AGPL sections with no PT-GPL counterpart</div>
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<div class="cell-label">PT-GPL \u2014 No equivalent</div>
<div class="cell-body">PT-GPL has no section corresponding to AGPL §2 (Basic Permissions), which grants the baseline right to run unmodified works unconditionally and addresses output. PT-GPL §5 (Acceptance) partially covers this but doesn't grant the affirmative run-unmodified permission.</div>
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<div class="cell-label">AGPL · §2</div>
<div class="cell-title">Basic Permissions</div>
<div class="cell-body">Grants unlimited permission to run the unmodified Program; addresses output; sublicensing-is-unnecessary statement; third-party modifications for you only.</div>
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<div class="cell-label">PT-GPL \u2014 No equivalent</div>
<div class="cell-body">PT-GPL has no revised-versions/upgrade clause. There is no "or any later version" mechanism, no FSF proxy provision, and no statement about future versions of the PT-GPL.</div>
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<div class="cell-label">AGPL · §14</div>
<div class="cell-title">Revised Versions of this License</div>
<div class="cell-body">FSF may publish new AGPL versions; "or any later version" opt-in; proxy authorization for version selection.</div>
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