> How true is this, in practice? I hear software folks say this sort of thing somewhat frequently, but I haven't heard it from a _legal_ person. As a business

> How true is this, in practice? I hear software folks say this sort of thing somewhat frequently, but I haven't heard it from a _legal_ person. As a business person, I'd prefer to avoid the legal expense and risk to find out the hard way later on. Who knows who'll manage ElasticCo 5 years down the line and whether their motivation may be to milk their IP through litigation. Do you really want to be the guinea pig? The smart business move would be to either license explicitly OR stick to the Apache 2.0 version and plan a migration off ElasticSearch