# Licensing for software developers

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/licensing-for-software-developers/41578>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [February 12, 2016, 5:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/licensing-for-software-developers/41578 "2016-02-12T05:28:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![devhero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5fc32e/32.png) [@devhero](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/devhero)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2016, 5:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/licensing-for-software-developers/41578/1 "2016-02-12T05:28:25Z")

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Hello, I am trying to find documentation and information about the licensing of ElasticSearch, Kibana, Marvel and the other products made by [elastic.co](http://elastic.co) that complete this Enterprise Search suite.

I searched the internet and this forum and I couldn't find answers.  
are these free for developers ? are there any restrictions ?  
as I developer can I install these products and integrate them together without any trial time limitation ?

Thanks,

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2016, 5:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/licensing-for-software-developers/41578/2 "2016-02-12T05:30:11Z")

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Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana and Beats are all Apache 2.0 Licensed.

Marvel, Shield and Watcher are all commercially licensed and require activation keys to run beyond an initial 2 week trial.

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**Author:** ![devhero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5fc32e/32.png) [@devhero](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/devhero)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2016, 5:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/licensing-for-software-developers/41578/3 "2016-02-12T05:48:57Z")

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Thanks Mark.  
I appreciate it.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 2:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/licensing-for-software-developers/41578/4 "2017-07-06T14:02:24Z")

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