# Snowplow licenses
> Information about the different licenses used in Snowplow components and projects, including the Community License, Limited Use License, and Personal and Academic License.
> Source: https://docs.snowplow.io/docs/licensing/
> Documentation index: https://docs.snowplow.io/llms.txt

This section provides information about the different licenses used in Snowplow components and projects.

The licenses below apply when you run Snowplow components yourself. Snowplow CDI Cloud and Private Managed Cloud, including the [free trial](/docs/get-started/free-trial/), are provided under a commercial agreement, so you do not need to choose a license to use a hosted environment. See the [deployment options](/docs/get-started/deployment-options/) for how the two relate.

## Source-available components

> **Tip: Terminology**
>
> Since some of the below licenses are not approved by [OSI](https://opensource.org/licenses/), we do not refer to them as _Open Source_ licenses. However, the source code is still available.

| [Apache 2.0](http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)                                  | [Community License](/community-license-1.0/)                                                            | [Limited Use License](/limited-use-license-1.1/)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          | [Personal & Academic License](/personal-and-academic-license-1.0/)                                          |
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| _Usage and distribution for any purpose_                                                  | _Usage in non-competing products, no distribution_ ([FAQ](/docs/licensing/community-license-faq/))      | _Usage in non-production environments only, no distribution_ ([FAQ](/docs/licensing/limited-use-license-faq/))                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            | _Usage for personal and academic purposes only_ ([FAQ](/docs/licensing/personal-and-academic-license-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](/docs/api-reference/stream-collector/) _(3.0.0+)_
* [Enrich](/docs/api-reference/enrichment-components/) _(4.0.0+)_
* [Iglu Server](/docs/api-reference/iglu/iglu-repositories/iglu-server/) _(0.12.0+)_
* [RDB Loader](/docs/api-reference/loaders-storage-targets/snowplow-rdb-loader/) _(6.0.0+)_
* [Snowflake Streaming Loader](/docs/api-reference/loaders-storage-targets/snowflake-streaming-loader/)
* [BigQuery Loader](/docs/api-reference/loaders-storage-targets/bigquery-loader/) _(2.0.0+)_
* [Lake Loader](/docs/api-reference/loaders-storage-targets/lake-loader/) _(0.2.0+)_
* Other loaders
* [Snowbridge](/docs/api-reference/snowbridge/) _(2.4.0+)_
* Community Edition terraform modules _(2024+)_ | All data models (except web and mobile)                                                                     |

¹As an exception, [Snowplow JavaScript Tracker](https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow-javascript-tracker) is distributed under [BSD 3 Clause](https://opensource.org/licenses/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 CDI](https://snowplow.io/) 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.