We aren’t alone in looking at alternative licensing mechanisms. This lets us invest heavily in code that we distribute for free, while sustaining a healthy business that funds this investment. And Kafka remains the core of Confluent Platform. Confluent will continue to make contributions to the development, maintenance and improvement of Apache Kafka, licensed under Apache 2.0. Will Confluent continue to contribute to Apache Kafka under Apache 2.0?Ībsolutely.The license change only applies to our Confluent software that was previously called “Confluent Open Source”: Confluent Schema Registry, Confluent REST Proxy, Confluent ksqlDB and some Confluent Connectors. Apache Kafka is licensed under Apache 2.0. If you are not doing what is excluded, this license change will not affect you. “Excluded Purpose” is making available any software-as a-service, platform-as-a-service, infrastructure-as-a-service or other similar online service that competes with Confluent products or services that provide the Software.įor example, it does not allow hosting of Confluent ksqlDB, Confluent Schema Registry, Confluent REST Proxy, or other software licensed under the Confluent Community License as online service offerings that compete with Confluent SaaS products or services that provide the same software.

Under the Confluent Community License, you can access the source code and modify or redistribute it there is only one thing you cannot do, and that is use it to make a competing SaaS offering.

Open Core means the core of our product-Apache Kafka®-is open source and available under the Apache 2.0 license, while certain features of Confluent Platform are available under the Confluent Community License. We remain committed to an Open Core model. What is the new Confluent Community License?Ĭonfluent is moving some components of Confluent Platform to a source-available license.

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