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  Amazon: NOT OK - why we had to change Elastic licensing

  

  elastic.co

  Why Elasticsearch Had to Change Its License — This is a complicated story that ties into a bunch of things that have been happening over the past few years. In short, Amazon/AWS is keen to offer new services and often releases services built on open source projects (e.g. RDS with MySQL and Postgres).Some companies that steward open source projects (like MongoDB and Elastic) want Amazon to contribute back to the ecosystem and have adopted more restrictive non-‘open source’ licenses. The downsides? Many, but just to start there's the potential disrespect to thousands of contributors to these formerly open source projects. It remains a complex and ongoing issue.

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• Issue 300 - Putting food on the table with open source

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  Community perspectives on Elastic vs AWS

  

  changelog.com

  This week on The Changelog we’re talking about the recent falling out between Elastic and AWS...

  This week on The Changelog we’re talking about the recent falling out between Elastic and AWS around the relicensing of Elasticsearch and Kibana. Like many in the community, we have been watching this very closely. Here’s the tldr for context. On January 21st, Elastic posted a blog post sharing their concerns with Amazon/AWS misleading and confusing the community, saying “They have been doing things...

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  CrateDB Doubling Down on Permissive Licensing and the Elasticsearch Lockdow

  

  crate.io

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• Banon: License changes to Elasticsearch and Kibana

  

  lwn.net

  Shay Banon first announced that Elastic would move its Apache 2.0-licensed source code in Elasticsearch and...

  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...

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