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They are loading this library via NPM AFAIK, so it is not included in the repo. Of course the final compiled release should be AGPL, but they are free to use a more liberal license in their own repo as long as it allows combining with AGPL software.
MIT for sure, but I think also Apache license (one way?) allows this so I think on license grounds this is ok. But IANAL.
That's what I thought as well.
If you just clone the repo there will not be any sources from the AGPL:ed source within the project, only a text mentioning the name.
However if you build it locally, it will pull in the third party libraries. So as long as they aren't distributing any built packages without a AGPL-compatible license, I don't think they are doing anything wrong.
(IANAL)
Agreed, I think this is a misunderstanding as well of the AGPL but IANAL