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With today's relicensing to SSPL Elasticsearch and Kibana are no longer open source but are instead business risks (anonymoushash.vmbrasseur.com)

submitted 4 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago (1 children)

Wow, this license sounds like a ransom attempt :/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 years ago (2 children)

I don't really understand the controversy, it just looks like a more aggressive version of the AGPL in its copyleft clause.

It does seem a bit shitty to switch from Apache2 to SSPL like that, forcing companies relying on ElasticSearch to either stop updating it or release their software as open source, but if I understand the license correctly, it's still a free software license.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago) (1 children)

Well, yeah, it is just more aggressive. But too aggressive for most, if not any use-case.

E.g. do I need to publish the source code of my processor's microcode? I don't know, if that in particular is proprietary, but most Linux distros have binary bullshit somewhere down there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 years ago

Yeah, so from other info it looks like the scope of the license in much wider than of AGPL and includes other (not well defined) supporting software where in AGPL it only includes the software licensed. Also AGPL kicks in on modification of the software where the SSPL on mere use of it.

So just the fact you install and run some program with SSPL would mean that you suddenly need to licenses who know what else. No other license does that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago

It's neither recognized by the FSF or the Open Source Initiative as free or open source software.

It's not free software.