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AWS has introduced the OpenSearch project, the new name for its open-source fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana.
OpenSearch is the new home for our previous distribution of Elasticsearch (Open Distro for Elasticsearch), according to a post yesterday, and the code is licensed under Apache 2.0. The Kibana fork is called OpenSearch Dashboards.
The projects are on GitHub, where they are described as in alpha state. The contributors said: We ve been removing non-Apache 2.0 compliant code and doing a full rename of the project.
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Our first response when hearing of the license change was that at least Elastic didn t invent yet another weird new license, and instead grabbed one off the shelf. Customer legal departments can rest easy that they won t have to vet yet another strange licensing offshoot. And secondly, after we started Googling all the details, cookie tracking triggered a wave of save on the cost of Elasticsearch log analytics ads from ChaosSearch.
It s the latest in a saga that refuses to end: can open source databases avoid becoming victims of their own success? It dates back to MongoDB s 2018 embrace of the SSPL, followed by Redis, CockroachDB, and Confluent announcing their own quasi-open source licenses du jour. Meanwhile, stalwart MariaDB retained the classic GPL license to keep the so-called cloud predators away for its core engine, but also used BSL for some other parts of their platform such as MaxScale. There s so much sturm und drang in this field. Like here and here. But
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Cloud services are the great disruptor of both IT organizations and vendors, and wrapping open source software around a service is the latest flashpoint.
The open source development model has proven to be an incredible incubator of innovative software by democratizing and distributing the conception, design, implementation and debugging of new titles, advantages that were thoroughly explored more than two decades ago in the book, The Cathedral and the Bazaar.
Although open source has since been adopted, encouraged and sponsored by every major software company, its origins were decidedly non-commercial with utopian overtones of liberating code from the tyranny of proprietary shackles. The earliest open source projects, notably Gnu Emacs and other tools from the Gnu Project, embraced this idealistic ethos with a restrictive, comprehensive license, GPL, that applies to derivative work using the code.
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Amazon Web Services has responded to Elastic adopting more-restrictive software licenses by simply forking the latter s Elasticsearch and Kibana products with an open-source license.
This basically means developers have a choice: use software developed by Elastic that has a somewhat limited license, or an open-source offshoot developed by a gigantic technology company that also offers it as the Amazon Elasticsearch Service in the cloud.
Last week, Elastic announced it will drop the open-source Apache 2.0 licence for its ElasticSearch and Kibana projects, and instead use the non-open-source Server Side Public License (SSPL) and Elastic licence in a dual-licensing approach. It said it may add provisions to have the code revert to the Apache 2.0 licence after a period of up to five years.
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