Re:AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana
by bawolff on Thursday January 21, 2021 @10:31PM
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From where i am sitting, it looks like a bait and switch: use the permissive open source license to get popular, once you are popular, switch to closed source license.
Which is not to say what they are doing is wrong, they are just as much within their rights as amazon is.
> The permissiveness of open source was one thought to be "we can all succeed together"
I think that's BS if you are talking about bsd-style licenses. Maybe i could see an argument about spirit violations if it was a GPL-family license, but the entire point of bsd style licenses is so that businesses can take the code and adapt it to their business needs.
Which is not to say what they are doing is wrong, they are just as much within their rights as amazon is.
> The permissiveness of open source was one thought to be "we can all succeed together"
I think that's BS if you are talking about bsd-style licenses. Maybe i could see an argument about spirit violations if it was a GPL-family license, but the entire point of bsd style licenses is so that businesses can take the code and adapt it to their business needs.