Elastic N.V. Announces License Change
Elastic N.V. announced that all future releases of Elasticsearch and Kibana would no longer be under the Apache 2.0 license, but instead under the SSPL (Server Side Public License) or the Elastic License.
Significance
This announcement was the direct catalyst for the creation of OpenSearch, sparking outrage and concern within the open-source community and among major cloud providers who had built services atop Apache 2.0-licensed Elasticsearch.
Key facts
- Date
- 2021-01-14
- Type
- milestone
- Location
- Global (via Elastic N.V. blog post)