Elastic Abandons Open Source Licenses

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Elastic founder on why they returned to open source 4 years after going proprietary | TechCrunch

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Elastic, the $8 billion company behind Elasticsearch and Kibana , has gone open source once again.

The company switched to a proprietary "source available" license four years ago .

The move goes against a trend that has seen countless companies ditch open source altogether.

In 2021 , Elastic moved to closed source licenses after several years of conflict with Amazon ’s cloud subsidiary.

Elastic says it's hoping to work with the OSI toward creating a new license.

The perfect license, according to Banon , is one that sits “somewhere between AGPL and SSPL” Banon says that simply being able to call itself “open source” again is good enough.

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