# How is Confluent Platform licensed?

**URL:** <https://forum.confluent.io/t/how-is-confluent-platform-licensed/234>\
**Category:** Learning Apache Kafka®\
**Created:** [20 November 2020 16:27 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/how-is-confluent-platform-licensed/234 "2020-11-20T16:27:54Z")\
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**Post date:** [20 November 2020 16:27 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/how-is-confluent-platform-licensed/234/1 "2020-11-20T16:27:54Z")

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**Confluent Platform** is made up of:

- Apache Kafka (Apache 2.0 license), including Kafka Connect and Kafka Streams
- Some [community-licensed](https://www.confluent.io/confluent-community-license-faq/) pieces, such as ksqlDB, Schema Registry, and some of the connectors for Kafka Connect
- Some commercially-licensed components (such as tiered storage, Confluent Control Center, etc)
  - For commercially-licensed components, you cam use trial for 30 days, or with the developer licence use them all forever, but only with a single Kafka broker