Elastic was an open source project, and now it's not. This was done because they believe it will be more profitable. It does affect you, especially if you contributed to the project, in which case they're basically spitting in your face as thanks for your hard work. This is not materially different from when Oracle infamously killed OpenSolaris, something they were rightfully crucified for by the community.
They're not wrong about Amazon misinformation, use of trademarks, and so on, and should have pursued the legal remedies for this more deeply. Called them out publically, and shamed them like this post attempts to do. But, if it didn't work, tough shit. It has nothing to do with the license. They made a contrat with their community when they choose an open source license.
>We created Elasticsearch; we care about it more than anyone else.
No, you didn't. Elasticsearch is the combined work of thousands of contributors.
Aside: using "Free & Open" in your messaging is a pretty low move, deliberately designed to mislead users.
Not quite. Elastic is removing Apache licensing altogether for ES and Kibana from 7.11 and switching them to SSPL (or alternately the Elastic license based on user's choice) [1].
They're not wrong about Amazon misinformation, use of trademarks, and so on, and should have pursued the legal remedies for this more deeply. Called them out publically, and shamed them like this post attempts to do. But, if it didn't work, tough shit. It has nothing to do with the license. They made a contrat with their community when they choose an open source license.
>We created Elasticsearch; we care about it more than anyone else.
No, you didn't. Elasticsearch is the combined work of thousands of contributors.
Aside: using "Free & Open" in your messaging is a pretty low move, deliberately designed to mislead users.