So are ya open source or aren t ya?
Tim Anderson Thu 21 Jan 2021 // 10:15 UTC Share
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Elastic CEO and co-founder Shay Banon has attacked AWS for what he claims is unacceptable use of the open-source Elasticsearch product and trademark.
Banon s post is part of the company s defence of its decision to drop the open-source Apache 2.0 licence for its ElasticSearch and Kibana products and instead use the copyleft SSPL or restrictive Elastic licence – though the plan is to add provisions to mitigate this by having code revert to the Apache 2.0 licence after a period of up to five years.
The new rant makes explicit that the purpose of the licence change is to make it harder for AWS to use Elastic s code. According to Banon, AWS has been doing things that we think are just NOT OK since 2015. Banon said that we ve tried every avenue available including going through the courts, presumably a reference to this lawsuit [PDF], the outcome of which is not ye
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Upcoming licensing changes to Elasticsearch and Kibana
We are moving our Apache 2.0-licensed source code in Elasticsearch and Kibana to be dual licensed under Server Side Public License (SSPL) and the Elastic License, giving users the choice of which license to apply. This license change ensures our community and customers have free and open access to use, modify, redistribute, and collaborate on the code. It also protects our continued investment in developing products that we distribute for free and in the open by restricting cloud service providers from offering Elasticsearch and Kibana as a service without contributing back. This will apply to all maintained branches of these two products and will take place before our upcoming 7.11 release. Our releases will continue to be under the Elastic License as they have been for the last three years.
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In a statement, Amazon Web Services (AWS) head of startup ecosystem for Asia Pacific-Japan Gaurav Arora said many startups already possess one of the qualities that could prove most beneficial in the post-pandemic world business agility.
“But being agile and moving fast is just the beginning. Startups also have to look for opportunities to pull unnecessary costs out of their business, forge new links to partners and customers, and ensure their employees are continually developing new skills.