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Streaming · Confluent Community License Agreement 1.0 (source-available) · backed by Confluent · 2,471 stars

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Confluent Schema Registry for Kafka

License history

LICENSE file
Source-availableDec 13, 2018

Apache 2.0 to Confluent Community License Agreement 1.0

Schema Registry moved to the Confluent Community License while client libraries stayed Apache 2.0.

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About and history
Repository
confluentinc/schema-registry · created Dec 9, 2014
Website
docs.confluent.io/current/schema-registry/docs/index.html
Language
Java
Foundation
None; run by Confluent
Company
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Stars per week
1 (GitHub weekly snapshots)

Weekly snapshots

Week ofStars
Nov 2, 20262,471
Oct 26, 20262,470
Oct 12, 20262,469
Oct 5, 20262,467
Sep 21, 20262,464

Changes

Stars per weekOct 26, 2026

Gains about 1 stars a week, down from 2.

Stars per weekOct 8, 2026

Gains about 2 stars a week.

RelicensedSep 25, 2026

Relicensed from Apache 2.0 to Confluent Community License Agreement 1.0.

TrackedSep 25, 2026

Now tracked, from confluentinc/schema-registry on GitHub.