Planka
Self-hosted kanban board for team project tracking.
Building on it: what may you do?
Short answers based on the licence, for the version in the catalog.
- B1 Change the code for internal use in your company Yes, with conditions Usually, for internal use. Check the terms.
- B2 Build your own product or service on top and offer it to customers as SaaS No Usually no for a service that competes with the vendor, without an agreement.
- B3 Make a closed-source derivative and sell or distribute it No No, not without an agreement with the vendor.
- B4 Use the project's name and trademark No No, not without permission. The licence covers the code, not the name or logo.
Keep in mind
- Open core: parts of the project (often an ee/ or enterprise folder) are under a separate commercial licence and may not be changed or used freely.
- Dual licensing: the vendor also sells a commercial licence if the terms above don't suit you.
This is guidance, not legal advice. Check with a lawyer before deciding.
The licence in brief
PLANKA Community License 1.1 (Fair Use License) (LicenseRef-PLANKA-Community)
Source-available licence. Allows personal use, internal use within your own organisation and free hosting for non-profits. Operating PLANKA as a hosted service for others for commercial gain is prohibited. Pro/Enterprise files have a separate commercial licence. Not open source.
What does LicenseRef-PLANKA-Community mean?
This is guidance, not legal advice (inte juridisk rådgivning). Check with a lawyer before deciding.
Facts
- Licence
- LicenseRef-PLANKA-Community
- Licence type
- Source-available (not OSI)
- Open core
- Yes – some features need a paid edition
- GitHub stars
- 12.6k
- Latest activity
- Deployment
- Docker
- Login/SSO
- OIDC
- API
- Unknown
- Multi-tenant
- Unknown
- EU vendor
- Unknown
- Source code
- github.com/plankanban/planka
- Source
- GitHub API, fetched 2026-10-03
Licence analysis per use case
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