Lightpanda

license

AGPL-3.0(OSI, copyleft)

source

public(the repository builds the browser binary)

core-gated

ungated(the hosted Lightpanda cloud is a separate managed service, not a carve-out of the published engine)

The repository states its own terms canonically. LICENSING.md names the default license for the project as AGPL-3.0-only, spelled per the SPDX License List, the LICENSE body is the AGPL-3.0 text, and the GitHub API reports the same spdx_id, so all three agree and nothing is appended after the license text. The repository builds the browser binary, and the hosted Lightpanda service is a managed offering sold beside the engine rather than functionality withheld from it, so the core is ungated. Placing AGPL in the OSI tier beside Apache rather than a rung below it is the ladder's standing rule - a copyleft obligation binds whoever redistributes and caps neither who may use the software nor at what scale - and it is a fact about AGPL rather than evidence about this product.

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lightpanda-io/browser/main/LICENSING.md recorded 2026-08-30

  LICENSING.md body: 'The default license for this project is AGPL-3.0-only', naming licenses per the SPDX License List.

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lightpanda-io/browser/main/LICENSE recorded 2026-08-30

  LICENSE body is the GNU Affero General Public License version 3 text.

• https://api.github.com/repos/lightpanda-io/browser recorded 2026-08-30

  Repo metadata - license spdx_id AGPL-3.0, archived false, 34,318 stars - for lightpanda-io/browser.

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lightpanda-io/browser/main/README.md recorded 2026-08-30

  README documents a headless browser built from this repository, driven over the Chrome DevTools Protocol, with no enterprise directory, license key or withheld component described beside it.