You don’t want to find yourself locked into a proprietary edition that isn’t right for you. We very intentionally chose to focus on “open,” and not “open source,” in our messaging. February 2: Several changes throughout to reflect updates to the Elastic License v2 (ELv2). If you are building Elasticsearch and/or Kibana from source, you may choose between SSPL and the Elastic License to govern your use of the source code. Elasticsearch is a trademark of Elasticsearch B.V., registered in the U.S. and in other countries. Until that time, for the avoidance of doubt, we do not consider using the Java HLRC as a client library in development of an application or library used to access Elasticsearch to constitute a derivative work under the Elastic License, and this will not have any impact on how you license the source code of your application using this client library or how you distribute it. This change of licence means that they have no recourse to using their own code. To learn about the tools we offer the community and/or to start a free trial of our paid products and services that ensure your Elasticsearch always runs at peak performance, click here. Elastic has always prided itself on the holiness of open source features and stressed in their announcement that they will continue to protect and prioritize them. In 3 or 4 years, there will be 2 separate and distinct products with feature sets that will become more and more differentiated over time. How does this change impact your relationship with AWS? I'm a customer or partner, how does this affect me? The Apache 2.0-licensed source code of Elasticsearch and Kibana will be changed to be dual licensed under the Elastic License and SSPL. 4 minute read In a play to convert users of their open source projects into paying customers, today Elastic announced that they are changing the license of both Elasticsearch and Kibana from the open source Apache v2 license to Server Side Public License (SSPL). We remain committed to the principles of open source - transparency, collaboration, and community. The next versions of the Elasticsearch search and analysis engine and of the Kibana data visualization dashboard will no longer be distributed under the very permissive Apache 2.0 license. In this case, it applies only if you are “providing Elasticsearch and Kibana as a Managed Service” as the primary offering, or a major part of it. Instead, it will be changed to SSPL (Server Side Public License) and Elastic license starting with version 7.11. Apache, Apache Lucene, Apache Hadoop, Hadoop, HDFS and the yellow elephant logo are trademarks of the Apache Software Foundation in the United States and/or other countries. This shift comes following Elastic’s recent announcement that the company is changing its Elasticsearch source code licensing from the fully open source Apache 2.0 license to dual licensing under the Server Side Public License (SSPL) and the Elastic License. January 18: Merge “I embed a modified version of Elasticsearch and/or Kibana …” and “I build an application that embeds and redistributes Elasticsearch …” questions to clarify and drive consistency. January 26: Expand response to “What is SSPL and how does it work?” for additional clarity. With the Elastic License 2.0, we have simplified the license terms, and made it significantly more permissive. The “fork” won’t remain a fork for long. Over time, we will eliminate this dependency and move the Java HLRC to be licensed under Apache 2.0. We are moving our Apache 2.0-licensed source code in Elasticsearch and Kibana to be dual licensed under Server Side Public License (SSPL) and the Elastic License, giving users the choice of which license to apply. The Implications of Elasticsearch and Kibana License Change from Apache 2.0 to SSPL Posted on February 10, 2021 , by Alex Berber | 7 minute read This blog explains the license change move by elastic.co for Elasticsearch and Kibana, its implications on the opensource community and what it means for the companies that are already using it. We are changing the Apache 2.0-licensed source code of Elasticsearch and Kibana to be dual licensed under the Elastic License and SSPL 1.0, giving users the choice of which license to apply. The primary reason for this change is to protect our investments by not allowing cloud providers to take our products and provide them directly as a service without collaborating with us and our community. Elastic is the latest company changing its software licensing model to protect its open-source code from cloud providers. You may not provide the products to others as a managed service, You may not circumvent the license key functionality or remove/obscure features protected by license keys, You may not remove or obscure any licensing, copyright, or other notices. To make sure you’re where you should be at every stage, read the considerations below. Whether you are just starting with Elasticsearch or have been working with it for many years, the considerations that make it the best option for your use case are still the same and you should stick to it. Our license change comes after years of what we believe to be Amazon/AWS misleading and confusing the community - enough is enough. See this dedicated FAQ for additional details on ELv2. However, we do not have a commercial relationship with AWS on the Amazon Elasticsearch Service. Moving between the AWS fork and Elastic won’t be complicated in the near future. If you’re already using Elasticsearch, whether self-hosted or with a managed service, you can stay where you are and keep working as you’ve worked until now. The recent changes to the Elasticsearch license could have consequences on your intellectual property. If they work together with AWS, who are certainly strong and capable, we may see a fully functioning fork in the future. Licensing Change Recently, Elastic.co made the announcement that they will no longer be releasing Elasticsearch and Kibana with the Apache version 2.0 license. Users should be able to operate Elasticsearch on their own, while staying self-hosted, without needing to pay an enterprise license to have access to tools that ensure smoother performance. Last week, Elastic announced they will change their software licensing strategy, and will not release new versions of Elasticsearch and Kibana under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2). For a specific example, you can see our response to a question around this for the Magento project. We will also continue to contribute to other open source projects, like Apache Lucene and other projects as we have always done. They may. Elasticsearch B.V. All Rights Reserved. AWS is probably the only company that could sustain one. Our license change is aimed at preventing companies from taking our Elasticsearch and Kibana products and providing them directly as a service without collaborating with us. In 2012 he formed Elastic as a business to sell subscriptions, hosting and training around Elasticsearch. If we decide to make any additional changes, we will communicate them separately. Our on-prem or … Elasticsearch was originally released as open source by Shay Banon in 2010 under the standard Apache 2 open source license, as a search server built on the Lucene library (also Apache 2 licensed and hosted by the Apache Foundation). Amazon will be creating a fork that will continue to be open source. We have built strong relationships with Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Alibaba Cloud, and Tencent Cloud. 2. Shay Banon. How does this change impact your partnerships with Microsoft, Google, Alibaba, and Tencent? Our license change is aimed at preventing companies from taking our Elasticsearch and Kibana products and providing them directly as a service … In these examples, is a user ID with the appropriate authority. Yes. I'm using Elasticsearch via APIs, how does this change affect me? This change only affects the source code — our releases will continue to be free and open under the Elastic License. We have strong commercial relationships with these public cloud providers, and will continue to partner with them going forward. For the avoidance of doubt, building a plugin to be used in Elasticsearch or Kibana does not constitute a derivative work, and will not have any impact on how you license the source code of your plugin. As of its upcoming 7.11 release, it will be switching to an SSPL license and Elasticsearch and Kibana will no longer be open source. We are moving our Apache 2.0-licensed source code in Elasticsearch and Kibana to be dual licensed under Server Side Public License (SSPL) and the Elastic License, giving users the choice of which license to apply. The best thing to do now is keep up with the changes in the field and reassess accordingly. What kind of use constitutes “offering the product as a service” under SSPL? This license change ensures our community and customers have free and open access to use, modify, redistribute, and collaborate on the code. What’s new in Elastic Enterprise Search 7.11.0, What's new in Elastic Observability 7.11.0. *This is solely our opinion and interpretation of the situation. I build an application that embeds and redistributes Elasticsearch, how does this affect me? January 15: Publish “Why are you offering a dual license strategy?”, “I build a SaaS application using Elasticsearch as the backend…”,  and “How does this change impact your relationship with AWS?” questions and responses. The main change is focused towards those who sell Elasticsearch as a service, such as Amazon Elasticsearch Service. However, as they’ve already demonstrated with their latest announcement, circumstances change, and their promises are not always kept. I contribute to Elasticsearch and/or Kibana, how does this affect me? We believe that the market is lacking self-management tools at the moment. As you may know from my posts, I like Elasticsearch.However, Elastic, the Elasticsearch company, recently announced it’s decision to change the license of it’s open-source products.Since then, the community largely reacted to this. The license allows the free right to use, modify, create derivative works, and redistribute, with three simple limitations: The aim of these provisions are to protect our products and brand from abuse, while making distribution and modification as simple as possible. Elastic is a great company, full of fantastic engineers, but it’s a company, and it’s goal is to make money. Publish “What kind of use constitutes “offering the product as a service” under SSPL?” question and response. Public cloud providers will need to comply with the Elastic License or SSPL if they wish to provide a version of Elasticsearch and Kibana that is released from 7.11 onwards. We also partner with AWS with our listing of Elastic Cloud in the AWS Marketplace, and continue to invest in that relationship to make Elastic Cloud the best hosted Elasticsearch and Kibana experience on AWS. Note that SSPL has not been approved by the OSI, so to avoid confusion we do not refer to it as an Open Source license. The posts were so opaque that Shay added another post clarifying what the new license change is all about. By. This license change ensures our community and customers have free and open access to use, modify, redistribute, and collaborate on the … Neither the Elastic License nor SSPL have been approved by the OSI, so to prevent confusion, we no longer refer to Elasticsearch or Kibana as open source. Our client libraries continue to be licensed under Apache 2.0. No one has the experience building and maintaining it as Elastic does. By protecting our investments in Elasticsearch and Kibana, this change allows us to make our other products even more open. Many companies have been working on a fork for Kibana, but no one has contributed significant code to Elasticsearch. FAQ on 2021 License Change. Elastic, the company behind Elasticsearch and Kibana, has made a change to their licensing. While less will be available as open source and on the free tier, the paid product will probably be state-of-the-art Elasticsearch. This source code license change should not affect you - you can use our default distribution or develop applications on top of it for free, under the Elastic License. Will Elastic continue to develop open source software? This means that when using the source code, you can choose which set of terms and conditions will best meet your needs. On the other hand, many companies have built managed services for Elasticsearch logging and security and will have no other option but the fork. To be clear, our distributions starting with 7.11 will be provided only under the Elastic License 2.0, which does not have any copyleft aspects and allows free use, modification, and redistribution, with only 3 simple limitations to protect our products and brand, as outlined above. License Change Clarification. I build a SaaS application using Elasticsearch as the backend, how does this affect me? Consider moving your Elasticsearch to self-hosted. In case you missed it, there’s been A LOT of drama in the Elasticsearch world recently. The Elastic License already prohibited using either source or compiled object code to run any kind of managed service. By continuing to browse this site, you agree to our privacy poilcy and, Plugins on top of Elasticsearch, likely maintained on the fork only for future versions. # news # podcast. I'm a user, how does this license change affect me? It means that any new versions of elasticsearch will not be Apache 2.0 licensed, but SSPL licensed. The same way they changed the license to SSPL today they can change it again tomorrow to something different and even more restrictive. 1. They’ve taken a unique approach to “doubling down on open”: customers can now choose between two non-open source licenses. Our intent in the name of our blog post was to continue the transition that we started three years ago, when we first announced the opening up of X-pack with the Elastic License. Elastic, the company founded by the creators of the Elasticsearch search server, recently announced a change to the license of its core product.Previously under the permissive Apache 2 license, future versions of the software will be dual-licensed allowing users to choose between Elastic’s own license or the Server Side Public License (SSPL) created by MongoDB. I’m using Elasticsearch as a service from a cloud provider, how does this change affect me? Elasticsearch was founded by Shay Banon and evolved out of his earlier project, Compass, which he began back in 2005. Shay Banon first announced that Elastic would move its Apache 2.0-licensed source code in Elasticsearch and Kibana to be dual licensed under Server Side Public License (SSPL) and the Elastic License. It doesn’t. For … This means that if you use the source code and create derivative works, those derivative works must also be licensed under SSPL and released publicly. Licensing Change Recently, Elastic.co made the announcement that they will no longer be releasing Elasticsearch and Kibana with the Apache version 2.0 license. Does this mean that Elasticsearch and Kibana are no longer Open Source? This license change, effective from Elasticsearch version 7.11, has business owners that rely on the ELK stack … With AWS launching a fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana, an open source version of each will remain available, but whether the fork will function and thrive remains to be seen. Elastic announced their license change, Upcoming licensing changes to Elasticsearch and Kibana. This will give you the power to migrate easily, if and when you want to. Why did Elastic change … If you have any questions, please reach out to us at elastic_license@elastic.co. Everyone else will just have to fend for themselves. What does it mean? If you are a customer, there is no change for you. In response to the Elasticsearch license change, a consortium of more than 100 interested contributors that represent more than 60 companies, including SaaS vendors such as Logz.io, indicated plans last week to establish a separate repository, or fork, using version 7.10 of Elasticsearch and Kibana code, which remain freely distributable under the Apache license. Elastic recently announced licensing changes to Elasticsearch and Kibana, with the company moving away from Apache 2.0 and adopting the Server Side Public License (SSPL) and the Elastic License. Our default distribution will continue to be under the Elastic License. If you build applications on top of Elasticsearch, nothing changes for you. We are moving our Apache 2.0-licensed source code in Elasticsearch and Kibana to be dual licensed under the Elastic License and Server Side Public License (SSPL), giving users the choice of which license to apply. We have also simplified the Elastic License to be as permissive as possible. To catch up on the catfight, you can read Elastic’s announcement here, and AWS’s response here. In the short term, there is a lot of FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt), but if you’re not a managed service provider or offering ES/Kibana as service, you probably don’t need to do anything*. This change ensures that our community and customers have free and open access to use, modify, redistribute, and collaborate on Elasticsearch and Kibana source code. I’m building plugins for Elasticsearch or Kibana, how does this change affect me? On Windows, use the following command: Invoke-WebRequest -uri http://:/_license -Credential elastic -Method Put -ContentType "application/json" -InFile .\license.json. AWS and Amazon Elasticsearch … We put together a rundown of what Elasticsearch might look like in the future, and what you should do now that the licenses are changing. In 2012 he formed Elastic as a business to sell subscriptions, hosting and training around Elasticsearch. We are also simplifying the Elastic License (Elastic License v2, or ELv2) and making it substantially more permissive. Elastic's decision to switch the license on its popular search and analytic engine Elasticsearch from the open source Apache 2.0 license to the "fauxpen" Server Side Public License, announced in January, was a typical move for a company built … This source-available license does not contain any copyleft provisions and the default functionality is free of charge. Will there be license changes to products other than Elasticsearch and Kibana? For more information, MongoDB has a good FAQ. Our commitments to the principles of open source have not changed at all over the past decade — we always have and always will value transparency, collaboration, and community. The Java HLRC has dependencies on the core of Elasticsearch, and as a result this client library will be licensed under the Elastic License. The Implications of Elasticsearch and Kibana License Change from Apache 2.0 to SSPL Posted on February 10, 2021 , by Alex Berber | 7 minute read This blog explains the license change move by elastic.co for Elasticsearch and Kibana, its implications on the opensource community and what it means for the companies that are already using it. This change does not affect how you build or license plugins to Elasticsearch or Kibana. Elastic License is also well known - If you use our default distribution, as millions of others and 90%+ of our downloads over the past 3 years, you already use it and there is no change for you. We do not actively support that service, and no longer want our investments in our software to directly benefit that service.For transparency, we also have ongoing litigation with AWS, discussed here and here. Customers and partners using our products in Elastic Cloud or under a self-managed subscription are not affected by this change. On the 14th of January 2021, Elastic announced through their blog that Elasticsearch and Kibana will be moving over to a Server Side Public License (SSPL). In the long term, Elastic will likely begin to “dry up” the free tier it’s promising and Elasticsearch will become a proprietary product. SSPL is based on GPLv3, and is considered a copyleft license. Our license change is aimed at preventing companies from taking our Elasticsearch and Kibana products and providing them directly as a service without collaborating with us. Share. Even with all of the confusion and the changes ahead, there’s no better alternative. DevNews Season 3 … It also protects our continued investment in developing products that we distribute for free and in the open by restricting cloud service providers from offering Elasticsearch and Kibana as a service without contributing back. SSPL is a source-available license originally created by MongoDB, who set out to craft a license that embodied the ideals of open source, allowing free and unrestricted use, modification, and redistribution, with the simple requirement that if you provide the product as a service to others, you must also publicly release any modifications as well as the source code of your management layers under SSPL. Please note: Since we initially published this blog, we completed our review and announced updates to the Elastic License. If they do, will they follow in Elastic’s footsteps and make it proprietary as well? No, we are only making this licensing change to Elasticsearch and Kibana — no other products will be impacted. We have a partnership with Alibaba and Tencent that allows them to offer Elasticsearch as a service. Last week, Elastic announced they will change their software licensing strategy, and will not release new versions of Elasticsearch and Kibana under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2). This change does not affect how you use client libraries to access Elasticsearch. This change will apply to all maintained branches of our software — 6.8, 7.x and master/8.0, and will take place before the 7.11 release is generally available. Most new features will not be available in the open source version, as we’ve already seen happen since they launched the X-Pack. We apologize for any confusion or ambiguity this may have caused. Our client libraries remain licensed under Apache 2.0, with the exception of our Java High Level Rest Client (Java HLRC). For example, we can look at Kibana and Grafana – 2 great, distinct products, with Grafana starting originally as a Kibana fork. This announcement has left many people confused and wondering how to proceed. We will consider migrating even more features of Beats, the Elastic Agent, and Logstash to be licensed under Apache 2.0. Elasticsearch was originally released as open source by Shay Banon in 2010 under the standard Apache 2 open source license, as a search server built on the Lucene library (also Apache 2 licensed and hosted by the Apache Foundation).
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