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Open source users warn adoption of copyleft licence could make use of Elasticsearch, Kibana a business risk
Tim Anderson
Mon 18 Jan 2021 // 19:17 UTC
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Updated Elastic, whose products include Elasticsearch and Kibana, has adopted a new licence called SSPL (Server Side Public License), as used by MongoDB. The aim is to restrict cloud service providers from offering our software as a service, but others warn this could make the products risky to use unless a paid-for licence is adopted.
ElasticSearch is a database manager designed for enterprise search, and Kibana a data visualisation tool. Both are open source; but late last week Elastic’s co-founder and CEO Shay Banon said in a post: “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.” ....

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