Re:AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana
by marcosdumay on Thursday January 21, 2021 @10:13PM
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> If they want to ensure others "pay it forward" (also release their source code), they should be contributing to copyleft projects instead.
But Amazon is releasing their source code. Even more of it than Elastic.
Re:AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana
by worldsayshi on Thursday January 21, 2021 @06:54PM
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A restrictive licence limits the potential value that the code can bring to the world. To maximize the value you bring as an open source developer you can't expect returns (to the community), only hope for it.
Re:AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana
by bigiain on Thursday January 21, 2021 @07:25PM
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> To maximize the value you ...
... have to let Bezos et al. exploit it?
(And that's maybe not as bad a thing as it sounds on the surface. Linux, Apache, PHP, Ruby, HAProxy, Nginx, and probably hundreds of open source projects I can't even start to list don't seem to feel the need to come out swinging like Elastic/Mongo/Redis have. )
If they want to ensure others "pay it forward" (also release their source code), they should be contributing to copyleft projects instead.
The AGPL would ensure users of elasticsearch, whether hosted by elastic or AWS, have access to the source code of the software they're using.