Linux Foundation announces OpenSearch Software Foundation
The Linux Foundation has announcedthe creation of the OpenSearch SoftwareFoundation as a vendorneutral home for the OpenSearch search and observabilitysoftware:
Established in 2021 and previously hosted by Amazon Web Services(AWS), OpenSearch has recorded more than 700 million softwaredownloads and participation from thousands of contributors and morethan 200 project maintainers.
AWS createdthe OpenSearch project as an open-source fork of ElasticSearch andKibana in 2021 after Elastic moved those projects tonon-free licenses. Elastic announced in August that it wouldrelicense the projects under the Affero GPL (AGPL).