But the community edition is available on a permissive Apache 2 license[1]. If I were Google, I'd only pay for IDEA community edition for the support contract (

But the community edition is available on a permissive Apache 2 license[1]. If I were Google, I'd only pay for IDEA community edition for the support contract (and to make sure JetBrains doesn't go out of business). [1] https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community