chore(license): move to AGPL-3.0 so hosted copies must share their changes

[GeiserX]

Pumperly is a web app with a public hosted instance, and it was licensed GPL-3.0-only. GPL only requires sharing source when you distribute the program, so anyone could run a modified Pumperly as a competing hosted service and keep their changes private.

This moves Pumperly to AGPL-3.0-or-later. Anyone who runs a modified copy as a network service now has to offer its source to the people using it.

• LICENSE is now the official AGPL-3.0 text from gnu.org.
• package.json and the root entry of package-lock.json say AGPL-3.0-or-later, as do the OCI and Artifact Hub image labels in docker/Dockerfile and docker-publish.yml.
• The README pitch line and License section, the docs home page, the contributing guide, the self-hosting guide, CLAUDE.md and the site's schema.org license URL now name AGPL-3.0.
• stale.yml gets issues: write and pull-requests: write. Without them actions/stale logs "Resource not accessible by integration" and still shows green.

Why the relicense is allowed: GPLv3 section 13 explicitly permits combining GPLv3-covered work with AGPLv3 work, so the few outside contributions, made under GPL-3.0, can be carried into the AGPL-3.0 codebase.

Data licences are unchanged: prices and charger locations still keep the licence of their source.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation

  • Updated the project’s license information across its documentation and published metadata to AGPL-3.0-or-later.
  • Clarified that modified versions and network-hosted versions are subject to AGPL source-availability requirements.

• Chores

  • Updated issue and pull request workflow permissions.

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Walkthrough

The project license changes from GNU GPL v3 to GNU AGPL v3. License references are updated across project documentation and metadata. The stale workflow now declares write permissions for issues and pull requests.

Changes

AGPL License Update

Layer / File(s)	Summary
AGPL terms and application guidance LICENSE	The license text changes to GNU AGPL v3. It adds terms for modified programs that support remote network interaction and updates related application guidance.
Project license references package.json, docker/Dockerfile, .github/workflows/docker-publish.yml, src/app/layout.tsx, CLAUDE.md, README.md, docs/contributing.md, docs/getting-started/docker-compose.md, docs/index.md	Project documentation, package metadata, image labels, and structured data identify the project license as AGPL. The README also states that running a modified version as a network service requires releasing its source under AGPL-3.0.

Stale Workflow Permissions

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Stale workflow write permissions .github/workflows/stale.yml	The workflow declares issues: write and pull-requests: write permissions.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~12 minutes

Change: Other

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 5b598

Confirm the rights to change existing contributions’ license before merging, and correct the README so operators understand the applicable terms.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 5b598

The licensing change affects operators of modified hosted copies. The maintenance workflow also receives pull-request write permission even though pull-request cleanup is disabled. Its scheduled trigger and pinned action limit the visible attack path, but the permission grant warrants review.

Retained concerns

• Low · security · observed: The scheduled issue-cleanup workflow now explicitly requests pull-request write authority while its PR stale and close transitions remain disabled. Whether this increases effective authority over the inherited baseline is unknown.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The explicit token grants expose issue and PR mutation authority within the workflow’s repository, rather than application-user or container-publication authority. The action’s actual use of PR authority is not established.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• inferred — Repository issue and PR state can influence an action that holds the workflow token, but the daily trigger and absence of repository-code execution provide no visible direct path from an untrusted submission to running attacker code. The external action’s treatment of that state remains unverified.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — The PR leaves stale-state thresholds unchanged. Correctness under interrupted, repeated, or overlapping runs depends on the pinned action: its mutation order, idempotency, and recovery behavior are not evidenced by the workflow.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Confirm the action’s required permissions and the repository’s effective baseline token settings, then remove pull-request write authority if the disabled PR path does not require it.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 1 functions across 1 files. (10 skipped: 1…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: switching the project license to AGPL-3.0 to require source sharing for modified hosted copies.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

Full details: Docstring Coverage

Explanation

Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 1 functions across 1 files. (10 skipped: 10 unsupported.)

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @LICENSE:
- Around line 558-559: Keep GPL-3.0-only terms explicit for existing
contributions in the license text unless the relevant copyright holders have
authorized relicensing those contributions under AGPL-3.0-or-later; retain AGPL
terms only for work covered by that license.

Review comments at @README.md:
- Line 46: Update both README license references to use AGPL-3.0-or-later.
Revise the license explanation to accurately distinguish distribution
requirements from AGPL §13: for modified versions supporting remote network
interaction, state that all remote users must be prominently offered a no-charge
way to obtain the Corresponding Source, without claiming that network service
alone requires releasing source code.

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• .github/workflows/docker-publish.yml
• .github/workflows/stale.yml
• CLAUDE.md
• LICENSE
• README.md
• docker/Dockerfile
• docs/contributing.md
• docs/getting-started/docker-compose.md
• docs/index.md
• package.json
• src/app/layout.tsx

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