Amazon: Not OK – Why we had to change Elastic licensing
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Re: Amazon: Not OK – Why we had to change Elastic licensing
#2I assume the trademark thing should be a slam dunk? That seems like the most blatant trademark violation ever.
Re: Amazon: Not OK – Why we had to change Elastic licensing
#3The license changes are described here: https://www.elastic.co/blog/licensing-change
Re: Amazon: Not OK – Why we had to change Elastic licensing
#4I wish there was something better than Elastic for indexing large volume of text.
Re: Amazon: Not OK – Why we had to change Elastic licensing
#5I assume the trademark thing should be a slam dunk? That seems like the most blatant trademark violation ever.
Against the huge wallet of Amazon? Litigation isn't free. How much "justice" can Elastic afford?
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#6I wish there was something better than Elastic for indexing large volume of text.
Yes.
AWS should build a real serverless alternative to it or buy Algolia or something...
Re: Amazon: Not OK – Why we had to change Elastic licensing
#7Amazon is the new Microsoft.
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#8Re: Amazon: Not OK – Why we had to change Elastic licensing
#9Their license literally says they have the right to use this code as they're doing, shouldn't be mad at them for that.
Imagine putting a sign on your lawn that says people can walk on your lawn and are even allowed to poop on it if they feel like it and then getting mad at them when they do so.
That being said, I support their right to change their license to whatever they like if it helps them survive as a business or for whatever reason they see fit obviously, more power to them.
Re: Amazon: Not OK – Why we had to change Elastic licensing
#10Elastic's other blog post with a clarification about their recent license change is also interesting: https://www.elastic.co/blog/license-change-clarification. Apparently, they're considering further license changes such as MariaDB's Business Source License in which code is usable for anything other than offering the product itself as a service but becomes fully open source (including SaaS) after 3-5 years. That makes it pretty clear that it's meant strictly for competition with AWS.