Amazon announced a fork from Elasticsearch and Kibana after the open source end of the software. Developer and provider Elastic blamed AWS and in particular its Elasticsearch distribution for the license change. It should explicitly not be a fork when it is announced 2019 – and it is now officially a.

So far, Elasticsearch has also appeared under the Apache 2 license, which will be replaced by the Server Side Public License (SSPL) in the future. However, according to the assessment of organizations such as the OSI, the latter is not an open source license. AWS now also wants to publish its distribution under the ALv2 and involve the community in the further development.

The code base should be the last free Version 7. 10 of Elasticsearch, AWS wants to make its new distribution available on GitHub in the coming weeks. Just one day before Amazon’s announcement, Logz.io had also announced a fork of the software; Whether and how both are related is unclear – both insist on the involvement of unnamed partners.

Motivation unclear, court should clarify Elastics CEO Shay Banon blamed Amazon for the license change. AWS now rejects the allegations. Rather, Elastic wants to prevent other companies in this way from also offering services based on free software – with a stronger growth of their own company as the goal. Shay Banon commented on Amazon’s announcement that they had unfortunately expected the fork. However, Elastic is relieved because they can now concentrate on their products and not on the dispute.

Meanwhile, Elastic continues to take action against Amazon in court. In his allegations against the group, Shay Banon also cited a possible trademark infringement by AWS, the use of the name Elasticsearch would confuse users. Amazon does not comment on the current lawsuit in its announcement of the fork.

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