Licensing overview

Source-available components

Terminology

Since some of the below licenses are not approved by OSI, we do not refer to them as Open Source licenses. However, the source code is still available.

Apache 2.0	Community License	Limited Use License	Personal & Academic License
Usage and distribution for any purpose	Usage in non-competing products, no distribution (FAQ)	Usage in non-competing products, no high availability in production, no distribution (FAQ)	Usage for personal and academic purposes only (FAQ)
All tracker SDKs¹ All Google Tag Manager templates Legacy data models (web, mobile)	Core libraries (schema-ddl, common-streams, etc) Developer tools (Chrome Inspector, igluctl, etc)	All pipeline apps: Collector (3.0.0+) Enrich (4.0.0+) Iglu Server (0.12.0+) RDB Loader (6.0.0+) Snowflake Streaming Loader BigQuery Loader (2.0.0+) Lake Loader (0.2.0+) Other loaders Snowbridge (2.4.0+) Community Edition terraform modules (2024+)	All data models (except web and mobile)

¹As an exception, Snowplow JavaScript Tracker is distributed under BSD 3 Clause. This tracker was originally based on Anthon Pang’s piwik.js, and has maintained the same license for distribution.

tip

When in doubt, consult each component’s GitHub repository for the LICENSE file.

Proprietary components

Snowplow BDP is built upon the above components, but adds a vast set of proprietary, closed source ones (UI, API, highly available deployment logic, and so on). These are only available under a commercial license for Snowplow customers.