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Author: Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
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CC: Stephen Partington, der.hans
Subject: Re: Elastic as FLOSS again?
We are moving from SOLR to OpenSearch and its pretty fantastic. It is super
fast, and super flexible even in its default state/config

On Tue, Sep 3, 2024 at 4:45 PM Ryan Petris via PLUG-discuss <
> wrote:

> Given that OpenSearch is licensed in the original Apache license, I
> imagine that it's still going to supplant Elastic. That said for most use
> cases the difference between Apache and AGPL isn't going to matter because
> you're just running it as an application in your stack rather than building
> on top of it.
>
> On top of that, a lot of corporations are allergic to anything with the
> letters GPL in them due to concerns about it infecting their software.
>
> The only open-source software that I can remember in recent times that had
> some controversy around it due to license changes that survived is MongoDB;
> IIRC there wasn't any real effort to fork it, maybe because it's shine had
> dulled by the time that happened and there were already useful alternatives.
>
> On Tue, Sep 3, 2024, at 1:12 PM, der.hans via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>
> moin moin,
>
> Shay reportedly says Elastic is going to add AGPL to ES, so will be Open
> Source again.
>
>
> https://devclass.com/2024/09/02/elasticsearch-will-be-open-source-again-as-cto-declares-changed-landscape/
>
> I haven't compared Open Search features to see which is more compelling at
> this point. Better security features certainly needs to be considered.
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans
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