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Re:AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana by sciurus on Thursday January 21, 2021 @07:19PM (#25866614)
Confluent absolutely wants a cut for hosted Kafka usage, though, and has made similar changes to Elastic.

https://www.confluent.io/confluent-community-license-faq/

> Under the Confluent Community License, you can access the source code and modify or redistribute it; there is only one thing you cannot do, and that is use it to make a competing SaaS offering.

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Re:AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana by wpaladin on Thursday January 21, 2021 @11:20PM (#25868276)
Kafka is an ASF project, and not controlled by Confluent. There is nothing stopping anyone from offering a hosted Kafka. You seem to be conflating Kafka with Confluent's own products.

>No. Apache Kafka is licensed under Apache 2.0. The license change only applies to our Confluent software that was previously called “Confluent Open Source”: Confluent Schema Registry, Confluent REST Proxy, Confluent ksqlDB and some Confluent Connectors.

I love that they try to make it sound like they even have a choice in changing Kafka's license.

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