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by deniscoady 1182 days ago
Disclaimer, I work at Redpanda.

Redpanda Community Edition is licensed with the Redpanda Business Source License (BSL). The core features are free and source-available.

This license was inspired by MariaDB and CockroachDB and "for 99.999% of users, restrictions will not apply". The big restriction is that users "cannot provide Redpanda as a commercial streaming or queuing service to others" which is primarily to deter large cloud vendors from taking our work and impacting our ability to operate as a business.

Here are some links for more details on how we came to this decision and how we license all our products and features.

https://redpanda.com/blog/bsl-source-available-license

https://docs.redpanda.com/docs/get-started/licenses/