Elastic recently announced licensing changes to Elasticsearch and Kibana, with the company moving away from the Apache 2.0 license (APLv2) and adopting the Server Side Public License (SSPL) and the Elastic License. Amazon reacted with a plan to maintain a fork of both Elasticsearch and Kibana under the previous license.

While Elastic suggested that they are still committed to open source and that the licence approach is similar to the one chosen by MongoDB last year, the SSPL is not recognized as an open source license by the Open Source Initiative. To address concerns and comments from the community, Elastic followed up with two more articles that contained additional license change clarifications and an explanation of why they felt they had to change.

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