Banon: License changes to Elasticsearch and Kibana

Posted Jan 21, 2021 6:43 UTC (Thu) by joib (subscriber, #8541)
In reply to: Banon: License changes to Elasticsearch and Kibana by tzafrir
Parent article: Banon: License changes to Elasticsearch and Kibana

AFAICT, no.

SSPL was after all invented when companies playing the dual AGPL/commercial license game thought the AGPL wasn't poisonous enough. The entire reason for it is to drive people to buy the commercial license, while still allowing the marketing department to waffle about "free & open".

Bradley Kuhn has a good writeup on the dual licensing scheme at https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2020/jan/06/copyleft-equal...