SeaCow · HackerTrans

If you read the Elastic License, it's actually worse than Mongo & Redis -- you can't modify it and use it for anything other than testing. You can basically install & use it only (definition of License, then the restrictions sections); if your testing uncovers something wrong... what are you supposed to do, under the terms of their license?

SeaCow

7년 전discuss

From the related AWS blog (so at least a few grains of salt):

>>This means that the majority of new Elasticsearch users are now, in fact, running proprietary software. We have discussed our concerns with Elastic, the maintainers of Elasticsearch, including offering to dedicate significant resources to help support a community-driven, non-intermingled version of Elasticsearch. They have made it clear that they intend to continue on their current path.

... maybe I'm misreading your comment, but it sounds like AWS tried to find a compromise, including contributing to upstream, and were shut down (and all their content about future contributing seems to say "we'll send it upstream, but it depends on whether Elastic accepts it," so seems to corroborate). It honestly seems like you get more certainty that everything you're using from AWS is open and will remain open, and Elastic is going to keep creating uncertainty / drive to proprietary source-available.

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