TerraPuzzle license
Last updated 2026-10-29
Every puzzle you make with TerraPuzzle is free to use for yourself, at school and for non-profit work. If you sell what you make, or use it in a business, get a TerraPrinter commercial license. It covers TerraPuzzle too. Plans start at $5 a month and are priced by how much you sell.
- Free: for yourselfPuzzles for your home, gifts you give away, and your own projects.
- Free: schools and non-profitsTeaching, classroom sets, clubs, museums and research.
- License: sell puzzles and filesOnline, at markets, in shops, as commissions. See plans
- License: business useProducts, client work, corporate gifts, events and displays.
One license for both sites. TerraPuzzle and TerraPrinter are made by the same team. A TerraPrinter commercial license covers the puzzles you make here, with no extra cost. Sales from both sites count towards your plan's yearly limit.
When you share or sell a puzzle, keep the credit for the data it was made from (listed below). Put it in the listing, the file description, on the box or on a small card. Every download already has it in its README.txt or 3MF file details.
Sharing for free? Also add Made with TerraPuzzle (terrapuzzle.com). Licensed sellers can link buyers to their license page instead, at terraprinter.com/license/check/<your license number>.
Playing is always free
Making puzzles, playing them in the browser, the daily puzzle, the leaderboards and share links are free for everyone, and don't need an account. The license only matters for what you do with the puzzles you print or the files you download.
Credits to keep
Add the line for what you made. Your download names the exact sources it used.
| What you made | Credit line |
|---|---|
| Puzzles of anywhere on Earth | Elevation: Copernicus DEM GLO-30 © DLR e.V. 2010–2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014–2018, provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA, and Mapzen Terrain Tiles on AWS. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). |
| Earth puzzles with the sea floor turned on | Sea floor: GEBCO Compilation Group (2024) GEBCO 2024 Grid. Add it to the Earth line above. |
| The Moon, Mars and the other 21 worlds | The credit line in your download, for example Elevation: LRO LOLA / SELENE Kaguya (NASA/GSFC, JAXA, USGS Astrogeology) for the Moon. The same lines are on the TerraPrinter license page. |
Where the elevation comes from Mapzen Terrain Tiles, the data inside them comes from many national sources. In a long description, such as a product page, add: Mapzen Terrain Tiles include SRTM, GMTED2010 and 3DEP (U.S. Geological Survey), ETOPO1 (NOAA), EU-DEM (Copernicus), and national elevation data from Australia, Austria, Canada, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway and the United Kingdom.
Questions
Can I sell printed TerraPuzzle puzzles?
Yes, with a TerraPrinter commercial license, which covers TerraPuzzle too. Plans start at $5 a month and are priced by how much you sell. Keep the data credits in the listing, on the box or on a small card.
Can I sell the STL or 3MF files themselves?
Yes, with a commercial license. Put the data credits in the listing or description. Every download already carries them in its README and file details.
What is free?
Everything for yourself: puzzles for your home, gifts you give away, teaching and classroom sets, school projects, and non-profit, club, museum and research work. Playing puzzles in the browser and sharing links is always free.
Do I have to credit TerraPuzzle?
When you share puzzles or files for free, yes: a short “Made with TerraPuzzle (terrapuzzle.com)” is enough. Licensed sellers don't have to, though it's welcome. Everyone who shares or sells must keep the data credits.
I already have a TerraPrinter commercial license. Do I need another one?
No. One TerraPrinter commercial license covers what you make on terraprinter.com and terrapuzzle.com. Count sales from both towards your plan's yearly limit.
Can a business use it?
Yes, with a commercial license. It covers the business and everyone who works for it: shops, print farms, tourism and gift shops, event organisers, escape rooms and agencies. Schools, museums and non-profits are free.
Can I sell puzzles of places with famous buildings or logos?
This license covers what TerraPuzzle adds. It doesn't give you rights to other people's trademarks or designs, such as a resort's logo or a protected building. Check before you sell where your country requires it.
The license
Free license. Capital Coders Inc., which operates TerraPuzzle, grants you a free, worldwide, non-exclusive license to use, copy, modify, print, share and display the puzzles, images and files you make with TerraPuzzle for personal, educational and non-profit purposes. This includes the piece shapes, trays, numbering and other parts TerraPuzzle adds to a puzzle. When you share or publish them, you credit TerraPuzzle with “Made with TerraPuzzle (terrapuzzle.com)” or an equivalent visible credit. The free license does not cover selling them, products made from them, or other commercial use.
Commercial license. While you hold a valid TerraPrinter commercial license, Capital Coders Inc. also grants you a worldwide, non-exclusive license to sell, distribute and otherwise use those puzzles, images and files, and products made from them, for commercial purposes, within the yearly sales limit of your plan, counting sales of things made with TerraPrinter and TerraPuzzle together. One license covers one person or one business, including its employees. Puzzles, files and products you sold or delivered while your license was valid stay licensed, for you and your buyers, after it ends. Crediting TerraPuzzle is optional for license holders. Plans, prices and billing are on the TerraPrinter pricing page and are governed by the TerraPrinter terms of use.
The map and elevation data in a puzzle stay under their own licenses, which allow commercial use with credit: OpenStreetMap under the Open Database License, Copernicus DEM under the Copernicus DEM license, GEBCO under the GEBCO terms of use, and the Mapzen and planetary sources named above. Keeping the credit lines on this page meets them for prints and files.
This license doesn't cover the TerraPuzzle or TerraPrinter names and logos, or the website and its software, so please don't present your products as made or endorsed by TerraPuzzle or copy the site itself. It doesn't grant rights in third-party trademarks, registered designs or copyrights, including those that protect some landmarks, buildings, logos and other makers' puzzle designs. If you sell or distribute what you make, you're responsible for making sure your products don't infringe them. Puzzles are artistic representations, provided as is, without warranty, as set out in the terms of use.