Terms

In this page you will find information and links to the Terms of our various products & services: Cloud, Matomo.org website, the plugins.matomo.org Marketplace, and finally our open source platform Matomo.

Cloud-hosted Matomo terms of service

The Cloud-hosted Matomo service provides you with a secure, cost-effective and reliable analytics solution, while still allowing you to have full control and ownership of your data and privacy. You may be interested in the Matomo Cloud-hosted terms of service.

Matomo.org Privacy Policy

You may also be interested in the Matomo.org Privacy Policy.

Matomo Marketplace terms and conditions

The Matomo Marketplace is the online marketplace for Matomo Plugins you can install in your Matomo Analytics platform. You may be interested in the Marketplace terms and conditions.

The Matomo Platform

Matomo (the software package) is Free Software, licensed under GPL v3 or later.

Matomo accepts code contributions under GPL-Compatible Free Licenses

We can only accept individual code contributions, new plugins or libraries if they are released under a license compatible with GPL v3. The FSF has published a list of GPL-Compatible Free Licenses. To limit license proliferation, the Matomo project accepts software in the public domain or released under the following licenses:

While the Affero GPL v3 is listed as compatible with GPL v3 (i.e., modules or source files under both licenses may be combined in a single project), the Matomo project will not accept software (e.g., plugins) licensed under Affero GPL v3, because the FSF list states, “you cannot take code released under the GNU AGPL and convey or modify it however you like under the terms of GPLv3, or vice versa.” This hinders software maintenance (e.g., refactoring) and future development.

New BSD License

For reference, when we refer to the “New BSD License” (or “Modified BSD License”), we are referring to 3-clause variant.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are
met: 

* Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
  notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 

* Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
  notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
  documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 

* Neither the name of <organization> nor the names of its contributors
  may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this
  software without specific prior written permission. 

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS
"AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT
LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR
A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT
OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL,
SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT
LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE,
DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY
THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT
(INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE
OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

MIT License

For reference, when we refer to the “MIT License”, we are referring to the “Modern style with sublicense” variant (source: Fedora Project).

Copyright (c) <year> <copyright holders>

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
THE SOFTWARE.