Article 5DD0E [$] Elastic promises "open"—delivers proprietary

[$] Elastic promises "open"—delivers proprietary

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jake
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Open-source software is famously able to be used by anyone for any purpose;those are some of the keystones of the opensource definition.But some companies that run open-source projects are increasingly unhappythat others are reaping some of the profits from those projects. That has led to variousefforts of "license reform" meant to try to capture those profits. Sofar, those efforts have just led to non-open-source licenses, thus projectsthat are no longer open source. We are seeingthat play out yet again with Elastic's mid-January announcement thatit was changing the license on some of its projects.
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