The Confluent Community License is a new licensing model adopted by Confluent Platform, replacing the Apache 2.0 license for some components. The main goal of this change was to provide more flexibility and control over how the software can be used. The license restricts certain competitive use cases, but these restrictions are intended to apply only to specific scenarios where using Confluent's software would directly compete with their products or services. This means that users can still access, modify, and redistribute the source code under the new license, as long as they do not create competing SaaS offerings. The Confluent Community License is a "source-available" license, which grants most of the same rights as Apache 2.0, but with specific exclusions to prevent direct competition with Confluent's products.