[Koha-devel] Elasticsearch changing licences

[Jonathan Druart]

Thanks Thomas, great article.

It's what I thought this morning when I read their FAQ and the
license, they don't mean the same.

The license clearly states:
"""
If you make the functionality of the Program or a modified version
available to third parties as a service, you must make the Service
Source Code available via network download to everyone at no charge,
under the terms of this License.
[...]
“Service Source Code” means the Corresponding Source for the Program
or the modified version, and the Corresponding Source for all programs
that you use to make the Program or modified version available as a
service, including, without limitation, management software, user
interfaces, application program interfaces, automation software,
monitoring software, backup software, storage software and hosting
software, all such that a user could run an instance of the service
using the Service Source Code you make available.
"""

That's crazy!

Le ven. 15 janv. 2021 à 11:47, Thomas Klausner <domm at plix.at> a écrit :
>
> Hi!
>
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 10:11:20AM +0000, Hugo Agud Andreu wrote:
>
> > as far as I have understood we still could use as ES license is still
> > open, tha changes only affects to those that change the code of ES
> > that they will be forced to publish their own developments, as Koha
> > only uses API and none code modification is done, then no problem with
> > ussing ES
>
> I haven't looked into the detail myself, but I know Vicky, and assume
> that she spend a fair shair of thinking before publishing this:
> https://anonymoushash.vmbrasseur.com/2021/01/14/elasticsearch-and-kibana-are-now-business-risks
>
> I'm using ES in a few projects, so I will have to consider if I just
> freeze ES at the current version, and/or look for some alternatives in
> the future. Or maybe they won't go through with the new license? Or
> maybe it will be clarified how the license actually affects projects
> just using ES.
>
> Greetings,
> domm
>
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