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[D.N.A] Elasticsearch and Kibana can be called Open Source again. It is hard to express how happy this statement makes me. Literally jumping up and down with excitement here. All of us at Elastic are. Open source is in my DNA. It is in Elastic DNA. Being able to call Elasticsearch Open Source again is pure joy.

[LOVE.] The tl;dr is that we will be adding AGPL as another license option next to ELv2 and SSPL in the coming weeks. We never stopped believing and behaving like an open source community after we changed the license. But being able to use the term Open Source, by using AGPL, an OSI approved license, removes any questions, or fud, people might have.

[Not Like Us] We never stopped believing in Open Source at Elastic. I never stopped believing in Open Source. I’m going on 25 years and counting as a true believer. So why the change 3 years ago? We had issues with AWS and the market confusion their offering was causing. So after trying all the other options we could think of, we changed the license, knowing it would result in a fork of Elasticsearch with a different name and a different trajectory. It’s a long story.

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[–] velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)
[–] leopold@lemmy.kde.social 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't follow. ElasticSearch was only available under proprietary source-available licenses. Now, it's also available under the AGPL, which is open source, meaning ElasticSearch is now open source software. What part of this is deceptive or contradictory?

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So source available. Not open source. Got it!

[–] sweng@programming.dev 17 points 2 months ago

Isn't that the point of the article? It's not open-source currently, but will be, once the AGPL option is added.

[–] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

But Shay was so excited.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 3 points 2 months ago

I think you are confused. You can use ELK under AGPL with this news going forward. The fact that they have to retain SSPL, too, because of previous contributors under that license, has nothing to do with the fact that you can use AGPL going forward. I've read your other responses,but they all seem to go down the same seemingly incorrect direction.

Am I missing something?