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You’re confused. This isn’t about crushing an OSS project: it’s about ensuring there actually IS an open source project. What Elastic is doing with its licens
by parasubvert 6y ago
You’re confused. This isn’t about crushing an OSS project: it’s about ensuring there actually IS an open source project.
What Elastic is doing with its licensing is not open source.
You might argue that if Elastic Inc dies then the project dies, but then it wasn’t a very robust project.
- hrktb 6y agoIt doesn’t seem unreasonable to me that a project would die if it’s original developper community dies. Some projects survive that shift, but it’s the exception more than the rule.