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Yeah, no. This is HN and free software & open source are established terms of art in programming, and Elastic is neither free software nor open source software
by nextaccountic 4y ago
Yeah, no. This is HN and free software & open source are established terms of art in programming, and Elastic is neither free software nor open source software
Fortunately Elastic already has an appropriate term for it: source-available software [0], and that's the term Elastic itself uses to define its license in their FAQ [1]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-available_software https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-available_software
[1] https://www.elastic.co/pricing/faq/licensing#what-is-sspl-and-how-does-it-work https://www.elastic.co/pricing/faq/licensing#what-is-sspl-an...