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Re:“I wish I could have licensed the Id source code releases... by javagram on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @08:06AM (#27747323)
ElasticSearch was GPL (AGPL). It didn’t help them because what their business model needed was not just sharing back changes to source code but to actually disincentivize competition in the space of providing cloud SaaS for the product.

Hence why they and mongodb switched to a shared source license that is not Free software.

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Re:“I wish I could have licensed the Id source code releases... by nopzor on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @03:08PM (#27764705)
elasticsearch wasn't ever GPL or AGPL to my knowledge. it was Apache licensed, and then they switched to SSPL.
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Re:“I wish I could have licensed the Id source code releases... by javagram on Thursday July 08, 2021 @10:11AM (#27772162)
Yes, sorry I confused it with mongodb.
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