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Re:Doubling down on permissive licensing and the Elasticsear... by galkk on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @03:31PM (#25933524)
This is the great, concise callout that is clearer than hundreds of messages in HN discussions.
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Re:Doubling down on permissive licensing and the Elasticsear... by quink on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @05:59PM (#25935345)
That's because Elastic did their own great, concise callout, it's just a little bit hard to find for those not following things closely:

Announcement from 2018:

> "We did not change the licence of any of the Apache 2.0 code of Elasticsearch [...] and we never will"

Edited announcement in 2021:

> "We did not change the licence of any of the Apache 2.0 code of Elasticsearch [...] and we never will¹"

> ¹ [...] we announced a further change to our licensing strategy.

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Re:Doubling down on permissive licensing and the Elasticsear... by proddata on Thursday January 28, 2021 @02:46AM (#25939286)
The thing is, that all the arguments they now bring up for the move, have been true in 2018 as well ...
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