Re:AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana
by wpaladin on Thursday January 21, 2021 @11:20PM
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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.
>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.