[JAVA] Community version of IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm is available for business / commercial use

Conclusion

As the title suggests, JetBranins IDEs IntelliJ IDEA and PyCharm's Community version are available for business / commercial use. ** JetBrains itself states that "Community versions of IntelliJ IDEA and PyCharm are commercially available" **.

Some people have a preconceived notion that "Community version cannot be used for commercial use" from the case of segregation of licenses of ready-made commercial IDEs, but IntelliJ IDEA and PyCharm's Community version can be used for commercial purposes without any problem.

NOTE: There is no Community version for JetBrains products such as AppCode, CLion, GoLand, PhpStorm, ReSharper, RubyMine, WebStorm. Therefore, it is out of the scope of this article.

background

This article is based in part on the "Modern Java Development Guide" (https://qiita.com/yoichiwo7/items/17190cb440ab7d253cea). I found that there are surprisingly many people who misunderstand that "the Community version of IntelliJ IDEA is not available for commercial use", so I will try to make it more noticeable by making a separate article and solve this misunderstanding as much as possible aims for.

This article contains information that is the basis for the commercial availability of the Community version (information provided by JetBrains itself). When using the Community version in a company, some bosses are reluctant from the viewpoint of commercial availability, so I hope that you can use it as a persuasive material when you encounter such a situation.

NOTE: Please note that this is not from the perspective of "If you think about commercial development, you have to pay for a paid version with a lot of features." If you want to use the paid version because of the abundant IDE functions around various frameworks / Web / DB development, or if you need to use it, please purchase the paid version license. It will be free for universities and OSS development, and discounts will be applied for start-up companies, so make good use of that as well (see [URL here](https: // www. For details). jetbrains.com/idea/buy/#edition=discounts)).

Supporting information

[IntelliJ IDEA] Description in the comparison table of Ultimate / Community version (pop-up display)

https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/

At the bottom of the IntelliJ IDEA page, there is a feature comparison table for the Ultimate / Community version, and in that table there is an item called License. The Community version says ʻOpen-source, Apache 2.0, and when you hover over the"? "Mark to the right of it, it says ʻIt can also used for commercial development." There is a description of )`. By the way, the red line in the figure below is included here to emphasize.

In addition, this description is displayed only when you move the cursor to the "?" Mark mentioned above. Please note that even if you search within the page with a browser, it will not hit, and the page search function of JetBrains will not hit.

NOTE: By the way, as of September 2018, there is no similar pop-up display because there is no license item in the PyCharm function comparison table for some reason. However, as we will see later, JetBrains states that the Community version of PyCharm is also available for commercial use.

[IntelliJ IDEA] Official FAQ Answers

Official FAQ for IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition states that "anyone can make OSS or commercial products" as follows. It is listed.

We chose the Apache 2.0 license because it is a very open license which lets anyone create both open source and commercial products on top of our platform.

[IntelliJ IDEA] JetBranins engineer's answer on community forum

Also, for those with similar questions, JetBrains lead technical support engineer Serge Baranov replied that "community versions are commercially available to companies of all sizes" [answer here](https: // intellij- support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/115000698770-Commercial-use-IntelliJ-IDEA-Community-Edition). (It's not a distant past, as we gave similar answers in 2017 and 2018)

[Question] I can use IntelliJ community edition to develop commercial applications with in a company of any size?

[Answer] Yes.

[PyCharm] Official Blog FAQ Answers

For the Community version of PyCharm, see [JetBrains Official PyCharm Blog FAQ Article](https://blog.jetbrains.com/pycharm/2017/09/pycharm-community-edition-and-professional-edition-explained-licenses-and -more /) states that it is commercially available as shown below.

Yes, you can. You are allowed to use PyCharm Community Edition for commercial use.

Also, since the Community version of PyCharm has an Apache 2.0 license like the Community version of IntelliJ IDEA, the position of the license is basically the same as the Community version of IntelliJ IDEA.