The lawsuit later on also included some other companies and software such as Open Distro for Elasticsearch by AWS, Amazon Elasticsearch Service, ObjectRocket for Elasticsearch, and IBM Cloud Databases for Elasticsearch. Why the License change?Ī while ago filed a lawsuit against floragunn GmbH, the makers of Search Guard, a security plugin for Elasticsearch and Kibana, with a claim of a multi-year pattern of copying elastic’s proprietary code. It is based on the GP元 license with an additional clause that would basically stop other companies from using the software as they own product directly, it can be used internally within the company but can’t be offered directly as a service to others. The new SSPL (Server Side Public License) license adopted by was introduced by Mongodb Inc in the year 2018 when they faced a similar situation. Along with this stack, it’s underlying search engine “ Lucene” also received heavy support from the opensource community, many contributions are made to Lucene by individual developers as well as the engineers of and other companies such as AWS, in order to enhance the underlying technology on which Elasticsearch has been built. Such a tool stack encouraged thousands of open-source developers to contribute to the cause and make the software even more prominent in the market. Under this license, the stack was adopted by many companies and heavily regarded and used in the software development community. The terms state that users can’t remove existing copyright, patent, trademarks and attribution notices.” “Apache License 2.0 allows users of the software to distribute, modify, or otherwise use software for any purpose, as long as the user complies with the license terms. However recently changed that license from Apache 2.0 to SSPL (Server Side Public License). Until now Elasticsearch and Kibana were under the Apache 2.0 license which made this software completely opensource. Elasticsearch and Kibana is part of ’s famous ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana) stack or on a higher level, a paramount part of the entire Elastic Stack, that comprises of other tools such as Metricbeat, Filebeat, Heartbeat etc, apart from your normal ELK. IntroductionĮlasticsearch over the past years has been the industry standard open –source software in the field of search because of its lightning-fast searching and very strong querying capabilities. This blog explains the license change move by for Elasticsearch and Kibana, its implications on the opensource community and what it means for the companies that are already using it. What about Lucene? The core search library on which Elasticsearch is built.Who will be affected and who won’t be affected by this License change?.
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