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Elasticsearch is open source, again
Elastic is adding AGPL as an open source license option to Elasticsearch alongside ELv2 and SSPL....
But being able to use the term Open Source, by using AGPL, an OSI approved license, removes any questions, or fud, people might have. 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. 3 years later, Amazon is fully invested in their fork, the market confusion has been (mostly) resolved, and our partnership with AWS is stronger than ever.
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