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Redpanda Licensing

Redpanda Community Edition is free and source-available at the Redpanda GitHub repo. Additional features are included with a license for Redpanda Enterprise Edition.

Redpanda Community Edition​

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

note
  • Users cannot provide Redpanda as a commercial streaming or queuing service to others.
  • The BSL code converts to Apache 2.0 licensing four years after each code merge.

Redpanda Enterprise Edition​

Redpanda Enterprise Edition is licensed with the Redpanda Community License (RCL). It includes the free features licensed under the Redpanda BSL, as well as the following features:

Enterprise features require a license key. You can evaluate enterprise features with a free 30-day trial. Contact Redpanda Sales to request a trial license, to extend your trial period, or to purchase an Enterprise Edition license.

Apply license key​

A license key unlocks Redpanda Enterprise Edition features. To apply the license key to your cluster, run:

rpk cluster license set

Either provide a path to a file containing the license, or provide the license string inline. For example, run:

rpk cluster license set --path /home/organization/redpanda.license --api-urls 0.0.0.0:9645

or

rpk cluster license set <license string>

If neither the path or the license string are are provided, rpk looks for the license in /etc/redpanda/redpanda.license.

Check license status​

To check the status of your current license, run:

rpk cluster license info --api-urls 0.0.0.0:9645

Redpanda sends warning messages in the cluster logs if you enable enterprise features without a valid license key.

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