Aside from this particular fracas, it's fascinating to see the proponents of "copyleft" and "permissive" licenses argue again about who is "freer": Elastic anno

Aside from this particular fracas, it's fascinating to see the proponents of "copyleft" and "permissive" licenses argue again about who is "freer": Elastic announced the license change with a blog post titled "Doubling down on open" (https://www.elastic.co/blog/licensing-change https://www.elastic.co/blog/licensing-change). Then these guys come along with a blog post "Doubling Down on Permissive Licensing and the Elasticsearch Lockdown" which accuses Elastic of "locking down" their code because they switched to a non-permissive license which in their view is "less free". Reminds me of Trump trying to steal the election by accusing the other side of stealing the election. But in that case it was at least easier to find out who was lying...