This can't happen because Lucene is controlled by the ASF, not a commercial entity. Allowing one of various foundations to take control of an open source project, can be beneficial for the community as its licensing is…
"Trust" may be too strong of a word. I would say that one should expect more consistent and predictable behavior from a foundation. I have however seen some questionable actions in the name of the ASF, where the…
That can't really happen. While Elasticsearch was previously released under the Apache 2.0 license, it was still "owned" by Elastic. Lucene on the other hand, is "owned" by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). While…
The source code for the various components that make up Open Distro is already freely available under an Apache 2.0 license. This change will have zero direct impact on Open Distro. The SSPL restrictions apply when the…
Prior to this move, the default install of the Elastic Stack was 100% open source. X-Pack had to be intentionally installed as a plugin. Now the default install includes X-Pack, and you have to go out of your way…
This can't happen because Lucene is controlled by the ASF, not a commercial entity. Allowing one of various foundations to take control of an open source project, can be beneficial for the community as its licensing is…
"Trust" may be too strong of a word. I would say that one should expect more consistent and predictable behavior from a foundation. I have however seen some questionable actions in the name of the ASF, where the…
That can't really happen. While Elasticsearch was previously released under the Apache 2.0 license, it was still "owned" by Elastic. Lucene on the other hand, is "owned" by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). While…
The source code for the various components that make up Open Distro is already freely available under an Apache 2.0 license. This change will have zero direct impact on Open Distro. The SSPL restrictions apply when the…
Prior to this move, the default install of the Elastic Stack was 100% open source. X-Pack had to be intentionally installed as a plugin. Now the default install includes X-Pack, and you have to go out of your way…