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The fact that AWS doesn't link to the Elastic License is hilarious to me. The plain reading of the license is "APLv2 but AWS Can't Sell a Hosted Version" so of course AWS forks the last APL version and plows ahead.

Note, I'm not trying to side with either AWS or Elastic here and I fully recognize that both Elastic re-licensing and AWS forking are within each org's rights. I really just think it is funny how beside the point AWS's press release is here.

EDIT: an apostrophe



To be fair, it was actually extremely difficult for me to find the license text after Elastic's announcements too. All the announcements and FAQ's etc. seemed to omit a link to the actual text.


For those, like me, who were curious and wanted to take a look: https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/blob/master/license...


Thank you! I had actually tried to find it after posting my comment and couldn't find it through their website. The day of the announcement Github hadn't been updated yet, and I gave up when I saw this didn't say where to look: https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/blob/master/LICENSE....




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