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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)
this post was submitted on 14 Jan 2021
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Wow, this license sounds like a ransom attempt :/
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.
It's neither recognized by the FSF or the Open Source Initiative as free or open source software.
It's not free software.