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Banon: License changes to Elasticsearch and Kibana

Wednesday January 20, 2021. 08:27 PM , from LWN.net
Shay Banon first announced that
Elastic would move its Apache 2.0-licensed source code in Elasticsearch and
Kibana to be dual licensed under Server Side Public License (SSPL) and the
Elastic License. 'To be clear, our distributions starting with 7.11
will be provided only under the Elastic License, which does not have any
copyleft aspects. If you are building Elasticsearch and/or Kibana from
source, you may choose between SSPL and the Elastic License to govern your
use of the source code.'

In another
post Banon added some clarification. 'SSPL, a copyleft license
based on GPL, aims to provide many of the freedoms of open source, though
it is not an OSI approved license and is not considered open
source.'

There is also this article
on why the change was made. 'So why the change? AWS and Amazon
Elasticsearch Service. They have been doing things that we think are
just NOT OK since 2015 and it has only gotten worse. If we don’t stand up
to them now, as a successful company and leader in the market, who
will?'

The FAQ has
additional information. 'While we have chosen to avoid confusion by not using the term open source to refer to these products, we will continue to use the word “Open” and “Free and Open.” These are simple ways to describe the fact that the product is free to use, the source code is available, and also applies to our open and collaborative engagement model in GitHub. We remain committed to the principles of open source - transparency, collaboration, and community.'
https://lwn.net/Articles/843274/rss
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