Mature tilemap editor (isometric/hex/ortho). The editor (src/tiled) is GPL-2.0. Official libtiled is BSD-2-Clause, not MIT. You can ship commercial games that load Tiled maps through a BSD/MIT loader. Do not statically link the GPL editor into a closed-source shipping binary.
At a glance
Licence
GPL-2.0-or-later
Commercial use
commercial OK
Credit
Not required
Status
active: License spot-checked at the source; the entry carries dated evidence.
Version precision corrected 2026-09-22. The bundled LICENSE.GPL is simply the stock GPLv2 text; the editor's own source headers elect "or any later version", making it GPL-2.0-or-later.
Evidence
Live GitHub src/tiled/mainwindow.cpp header (2026-09-22): "either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version"
Live GitHub LICENSE.GPL (2026-08-24): "GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2, June 1991"
Live GitHub COPYING (2026-08-24): "Tiled src/tiled GPL" and "libtiled src/libtiled BSD 2-clause license"
Live homepage (2026-08-24): "Tiled is a free and open source"