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2026

Archived version 2 of 5. This is how the model read before it was corrected. It is shown read only. The current version is here.

GNU General Public License 3 with GPL-3.0 Linking Exception

The same license with an exception of GPL-3.0-only. A variant models the same legal text with one thing changed, so it is a license of its own with an address of its own and it is listed like any other.

Also known as GNU General Public License v3.0 only with GPL-3.0 Linking Exception, GPL-3.0 with linking exception, GPL-3.0-only WITH GPL-3.0-linking-exception, GPL-3.0-only-with-GPL-3.0-linking-exception, GPLv3 with linking exception.

Commercial use
allowed
Share alike
required
Attribution
required (keep the copyright and license notices)
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Canonical URI https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/GPL-3.0-only-with-GPL-3.0-linking-exception

Permissions

  • Charge distribution fee from the text The text says: "You may charge any price or no price for each copy that you convey, and you may offer support or warranty protection for a fee." Charging a fee for the act of providing a copy of the work to someone else.
  • Commercial use from the text Using the work to generate income, directly or indirectly, for example by selling it or by using it in advertising.
  • Derivative works from the text Distributing an adaptation of the work and making it available to the public.
  • Derive from the text Creating a new work from the work, such as a translation, adaptation or arrangement of it or of a part of it.

    Duties

    • Attribution from the text Giving credit to the copyright holders or authors of the work, in the form the licensor asks for.
    • Modification notice from the text Marking a changed work as changed, saying how it differs from the original and keeping earlier notices of change.
    • Notice from the text Notice: keeping the license and copyright notices with every copy.
    • Source code from the text Providing access to the source code of the work with every copy distributed.
  • Display from the text Showing the work to the public without making a copy the viewer keeps.
  • Distribute from the text Providing copies of the work to the public or to anyone else.

    Duties

    • Attribution from the text Giving credit to the copyright holders or authors of the work, in the form the licensor asks for.
    • Notice from the text Notice: keeping the license and copyright notices with every copy.
    • Source code from the text Providing access to the source code of the work with every copy distributed.
  • Excepted combination from the text Combining or linking the covered work with the material an exception names and conveying the result without the condition the exception lifts.
  • Modified works from the text Distributing a modified version of the work that does not amount to a new, derivative work.
  • Modify from the text Altering the work, for example by updating it, without creating a new work; an alteration that creates a new work is Derive.

    Duties

    • Attribution from the text Giving credit to the copyright holders or authors of the work, in the form the licensor asks for.
    • Modification notice from the text Marking a changed work as changed, saying how it differs from the original and keeping earlier notices of change.
    • Notice from the text Notice: keeping the license and copyright notices with every copy.
    • Source code from the text Providing access to the source code of the work with every copy distributed.
  • Patent grant from the text Granting a license under the patent claims that a contributor holds and that the contribution necessarily infringes.
  • Present from the text Performing the work in public, including by broadcast or other communication to the public.
  • Reproduce from the text Making copies of the work in any form.

Prohibitions

  • Change license from the text Not permitted: Change license. Replacing the license of the work, or of an adaptation, with another license, or changing its terms.

License-wide duties

  • Share alike from the text Adaptations have to be licensed under the same license or one the license names as compatible.

Further terms

These are the things the license says about itself beyond the acts it permits, forbids and requires: when it ends, how long there is to put a breach right, which law governs it, and so on. A term that comes from the DALICC vocabulary links to its definition.

Cure period
30 days
Or later version option
No
Reciprocity scope
the Program, not the work that results from linking it with the named library
Terminates on breach
Yes

Clauses

Warranty disclaimer

THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE PROGRAM “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.

Limitation of liability

IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MODIFIES AND/OR CONVEYS THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER PROGRAMS), EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

Accepting warranty or additional liability

you may offer support or warranty protection for a fee

Additional clauses

Additional permission under GNU GPL version 3 section 7 If you modify this Program, or any covered work, by linking or combining it with [name of library] (or a modified version of that library), containing parts covered by the terms of [name of library's license], the licensors of this Program grant you additional permission to convey the resulting work.

Info

Target asset types
Software
Region / jurisdiction
Worldwide
Validity
Perpetual
Source
https://spdx.org/licenses/GPL-3.0-linking-exception.html
Legal code
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html
This description is published under
https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/CC-BY-4.0
Publisher
Free Software Foundation
SPDX identifier
GPL-3.0-only WITH GPL-3.0-linking-exception on the SPDX license list
Version
3.0
DALICC identifier
GPL-3.0-only-with-GPL-3.0-linking-exception

This record is published under CC BY 4.0. Credit it as: DALICC License Library, DALICC - Verein zur Förderung der Rechtssicherheit in der Datenbewirtschaftung, https://dalicc.net, CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The license it describes belongs to its publisher.

History

This license model has 5 versions. Version 5 is the one served today; every earlier version keeps its own address, so a conclusion drawn from one of them can still be checked against it.

  1. Version 5 current2026-10-02 Giray Havur

    The excepted combination names the rule of GPL-3.0-only it narrows and the ways of combining it narrows it for, as the addition record GPL-3.0-linking-exception does. The record follows its base GPL-3.0-only, which now states the ways of combining its share alike reaches and that the license forbids further restrictions.

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    3 changes

    • changed duty cc:ShareAlike

      was duty cc:ShareAlike

      Manual edit The share alike names the ways of combining it reaches and quotes the sentences that settle them (dalicc:reachesCombination, dalicc:reachEvidence). An aggregate is outside it; the entire work is inside, with the libraries it is designed to require. Output is covered when its content is a covered work, which the way of combining alone does not settle, so a work made with the Program is recorded as reached. The record takes it from its base GPL-3.0-only.

    • changed permission dalicc:exceptedCombination

      was permission dalicc:exceptedCombination

      Manual edit The excepted combination names, with dalicc:derogates, the rule of the base it narrows and the ways of combining it narrows it for, as the addition record GPL-3.0-linking-exception does.

    • added prohibition dalicc:addLimitation

      Manual edit The text forbids further restrictions: "You may not impose any further restrictions on the exercise of the rights granted or affirmed under this License." A rider can therefore not be read together with the license. The record takes it from its base GPL-3.0-only.

  2. Version 4 2026-10-02 Giray Havur

    The record is generated from its base record and the addition record GPL-3.0-linking-exception since 2026-10-02. The addition quotes the sentence of the exception its permission rests on, so the record quotes it too.

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    1 change

    • changed permission dalicc:exceptedCombination

      was permission dalicc:exceptedCombination

      Manual edit The dalicc:exceptedCombination permission now quotes the sentence of the exception it rests on, as the addition record GPL-3.0-linking-exception does.

  3. Version 3 2026-10-02 Giray Havur

    Restored what the base record says and this record had lost: the licenses a work under it may be released under. An exception record keeps every statement of its base.

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    2 changes

    • added dalicc:compatibleWith dalicclib:AGPL-3.0

      Manual edit Section 13 of the base text lets a covered work be linked or combined with a work under version 3 of the GNU Affero General Public License and the result be conveyed, and the base record names that compatibility. The exception only adds a permission, so the record names it as well.

    • added dalicc:compatibleWith dalicclib:AGPL-3.0-or-later

      Manual edit Section 13 of the base text lets a covered work be linked or combined with a work under version 3 of the GNU Affero General Public License and the result be conveyed, and the base record names that compatibility. The exception only adds a permission, so the record names it as well.

  4. Version 2 2026-09-24 Giray Havur

    The changes since version 1 left endorsement to the default rule of the core dependency graph, recorded which sentence of the text each statement rests on, corrected it against its text on 2026-09-24 and named the license the record itself is published under.

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    4 changes

    • removed prohibition dalicc:promote

      Manual edit The endorsement prohibition rested on no sentence of the text; the default rule for endorsement now supplies it.

    • changed permission dalicc:chargeDistributionFee

      was permission dalicc:chargeDistributionFee

      Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "You may charge any price or no price for each copy that you convey, and you may offer support or warranty protection for a fee."

    • changed dalicc:WarrantyOrLiabilityAcceptance "you may offer support or warranty protection for a fee"

      was dalicc:WarrantyOrLiabilityAcceptance "You may charge any price or no price for each copy that you convey, and you may offer support or warranty protection for a fee."

      Manual edit The first half of the Section 4 sentence, "You may charge any price or no price for each copy that you convey", is the permission to charge for a copy, not a warranty clause.

    • added dct:license <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>

      Manual edit Every record is published under CC BY 4.0. cc:license names the record DALICC keeps of that licence; dct:license now names it by the address Creative Commons publishes it at, so that a consumer matching the canonical IRI finds it.

  5. Version 1

    Created from the license text on 2026-09-22 (GNU copyleft family (GPL, LGPL, AGPL, FDL)).

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Every change names the reason behind it: a finding of the content review, one of its library-wide decisions, the metadata that review wrote onto every record, or a hand edit. None of it is legal advice.

Nothing on this page is legal advice. What a license means is decided by its text; ask a legal advisor before you rely on it.