"without violating the license a small startup put in place to stop them?" Elasticsearch was first released over a decade ago. ElasticSearch, now just Elastic,

"without violating the license a small startup put in place to stop them?" Elasticsearch was first released over a decade ago. ElasticSearch, now just Elastic, the company was founded over 9 years ago and now is public. Are they still a "small startup"? If so when does a company graduate from that status?