Anyone may, and many people do, have open source forks of Elastic on github. 18.9k of them on github alone. There was no need for "another" other than PR. I f

Anyone may, and many people do, have open source forks of Elastic on github. 18.9k of them on github alone. There was no need for "another" other than PR. I feel compelled to note that your summary of SSPL is wholly inaccurate. SSPL is very clearly a GPL derivative. It's language though leaves a lot to be desired, but the intent was clear. It does NOT prohibit making money offering the software as a service. It does require to contribute your changes back to the software if you are doing so. The real failure is that companies have danced well enough around the edges of GPLv3 for so long that Amazon running a service which is basically just the software with modifications, but without the source code being contributed to open source, is feasible. This is even becoming a problem for Linux. The reality is that Amazon Elasticsearch is clearly a derivative work under copyright law, and under GPL should be re-contributed. But major companies have "danced" the line so it does not have to be. SSPL is an attempt to bridge that gap, a poor one, but an attempt. The OSI appears more interested in defending their license than helping resolve this egregious situation. The SSPL sucks, but not having a solution for it sucks more.