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Re:Doubling down on permissive licensing and the Elasticsear... by e12e on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @03:12PM (#25933291)
> We would never have chosen Elasticsearch in the first place, had it been licensed under the GPL as some of our customers (and many large enterprises do by default) banned GPL licensed software from their application stacks for legal risks.

So, they don't run Linux, don't use glibc? That can't be all that common? (I mean sure, there's the bsds.. But still..).

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Re:Doubling down on permissive licensing and the Elasticsear... by proddata on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @03:32PM (#25933541)
> So, they don't run Linux, don't use glibc? That can't be all that common? (I mean sure, there's the bsds.. But still..).

We do run Linux :)

But there is a difference between building on and building with.

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Re:Doubling down on permissive licensing and the Elasticsear... by dd_roger on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @11:03PM (#25937990)
The problem is not using a GPL software internally, but using it in a product that you'd want to sell and at this point be forced to opensource your entire product. Despite what some people like to pretend there's basically no scalable business model outside of SaaS that will make you any money selling GPL-licensed software so this situation is extremely undesireable.
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