Ancestors

Written by Francesco P Lovergine on 2024-08-30 at 08:19

So they did it again after 3 years. An AGPL license has been added to Elasticsearch and Kibana. I wonder if this is the last change, and who can trust such governance teams at the end of the day?

https://www.elastic.co/blog/elasticsearch-is-open-source-again

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Toot

Written by Philipp Krenn on 2024-08-30 at 08:43

@gisgeek I'm obviously biased here but for the vast majority of users, the last change didn't make a tangible difference (unless you wanted to offer elasticsearch as a cloud service), and while this change will hopefully make some things easier and avoid discussions, it won't materially change it either

PS: we can discuss how long or short 3 years in software development is or how many SaaS companies came and went in that time 😬

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Descendants

Written by Francesco P Lovergine on 2024-08-30 at 17:25

@xeraa

Discussions should be done before abruptly change license to force third parties. There is never the certainty about the final results when things turn for the worst. That's my own opinion about such things. That's for the issue 3 years ago.

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Written by Philipp Krenn on 2024-09-02 at 12:14

@gisgeek I'm not sure what a discussion would have changed? there was only one outcome (also, elastic has always been doing >90% of the work and that's a conservative number). and for the vast amount of users it didn't change their use

PS: on top of how you can even do major changes as a public company

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