Hi :) On 21-04-16 02:23, dcook@prosentient.com.au wrote:
Because I’m good at stirring up trouble…
XD
AWS have forked the last FOSS Elasticsearch (7.10 I think)
Hopefully AWS won't be the only one doing all the work and having all the control. (Red Hat, SAP, Capital One, CrateDB, Aiven and Logz.io are said to be part of it)
They’ve announced that they’re calling it OpenSearch. It’s still only in alpha stage and they won’t have a production-ready release for months yet, but it is interesting to keep notes on.
Great news to see this moving. Because the topic will come in the future. Since ES isn't libre/open source anymore, ES even acknowledges that. https://www.elastic.co/pricing/faq/licensing#what-is-sspl-and-how-does-it-wo... There is a lot written stuff and contradictory analysis on the topic. But regardless of what the ES FAQ and blog posts says. **Is there a reliable legal analysis on the license text?** The closest thing I have found so far is this one: https://anonymoushash.vmbrasseur.com/2021/01/14/elasticsearch-and-kibana-are... Found also people dismissing it as FUD but without contradictory legal analysis. The key question are: Is Koha legally usable with SSPL ES? Is it's affected by it's copyleft clause? (up) Same question for the underlying components used to run ES. (down)
Elastic are responsible for the vast majority of commits in Elasticsearch, so I’m somewhat skeptical about a fork, but I think there is a lot of anger at Elastic and a lot of support for OpenSearch, so who knows.
The last libre version of ES is pretty great as it is. Not having the fastest possible development on OpenSearch won't take away that.
I don’t think there’s anything to do at this stage, but just wanted to share the information for people
+1, thanks. -- Victor Grousset/tuxayo