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Running it for your own purposes as part of a solution that includes search should be fine under AGPL. If your product is elastic search built into Postgres as a repackaged and direct competitor to this search plug-in, that’s where my understanding is over the line.
yes I understand I can do that, and I also understand why the authors chose to do that, I would have done the same. My point of view is more from a small saas company perspective (i.e 100% pragmatic): 1. I want as less vendor as possible, especially on something as mission critical as my database 2. I already use AWS RDS and it comes with a LOT of nice things (managed, multi-az, easy backup/restore story, etc.) In th…
I find some of the built in services on clouds are just open source libraries that are packaged up to increase tie in to that platform.
I like cloud, but cloud agnostically, and hybrid/private clouds in the mix with that seem like a good skill to at least be able to consider thinking through.