# Contribute to Confluent Marketplace for Confluent Platform [Confluent Marketplace](https://confluent.io/hub) welcomes submissions from all developers of components within the Apache Kafka® and Confluent Cloud or Confluent Platform ecosystems. The component contribution instructions outlined here are for community members who would like their projects to be hosted on Confluent Marketplace. If you are a participant in [Confluent’s Partner Program](https://www.confluent.io/partners/) and would like to submit your product to Confluent Marketplace, contact your Confluent representative for details and benefits. ## Legal Requirements for Community Submissions Any components in Confluent Marketplace that are labeled as open source must be licensed under one of the umbrella licenses that enforces royalty- and restriction-free licensing, including Apache 2.0. ## Technical Requirements for Submissions You must submit components in the [component archive](component-archive.md#confluent-hub-component-archive) format. Improperly-packaged components will be rejected. ## Verify your Submission’s Authenticity Optionally, you can verify the authenticity of your component by signing it (for example, using `gpg --detach-sign --armor`) and including the corresponding ASC file with your submission. ## Submit a Component To submit a component, email the component archive and optionally its ASC file to [confluent-hub@confluent.io](mailto:confluent-hub@confluent.io), either as attachments or through cloud storage, such as Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive, or Dropbox. By submitting a component, you agree to the Confluent Marketplace [terms of use](https://www.confluent.io/confluent-hub-terms-of-use). ## Suggested Reading Blog post: [How to Make Your Open Source Apache Kafka Connector Available on Confluent Marketplace](https://www.confluent.io/blog/how-to-share-kafka-connectors-on-confluent-hub/)