DansGuardian is distributed under the GPLv2 free software license, and written using the C++ programming language.

The Ubuntu Christian Edition Linux distribution includes a graphical user interface (GUI) tool for configuring DansGuardian.

[citation needed] Zentyal has the option to use Dansguardian as a proxy server with a web interface.

There is a graphical user interface available for Ubuntu, called WebContentControl, which was designed to install and configure DansGuardian, FireHOL and Tinyproxy easily.

[8] In the United States, DansGuardian satisfies the requirements of Children's Internet Protection Act.