Elastic Announces Open Source License for Elasticsearch and Kibana Source Code
August 29 2024 - 4:03PM
Business Wire
OSI-approved AGPL license will be added for a
subset of Elasticsearch and Kibana source code
Elastic (NYSE: ESTC), the Search AI Company, today announced
that it is adding the GNU Affero General Public License v3 (AGPL)
as an option for users to license the free part of the
Elasticsearch and Kibana source code that is available under Server
Side Public License 1.0 (SSPL 1.0) and Elastic License 2.0
(ELv2).
With the addition of AGPL, an open source license approved by
the Open Source Initiative (OSI), Elasticsearch and Kibana will be
officially considered open source and enable Elastic’s customers
and community to use, modify, redistribute, and collaborate on
Elastic’s source code under a well-known open source license.
“We’re delighted to reintroduce an OSI-approved open source
license to Elasticsearch and Kibana. Elastic has always strongly
believed in the ethos of open source and the clarity and
transparency that it enables,” said Shay Banon, founder and
chief technology officer for Elastic. “Adding AGPL will also
enable greater engagement and adoption across our users in areas
including vector search, further increasing the popularity of
Elasticsearch as the runtime platform for RAG and building GenAI
applications.”
The addition of AGPL as a license option does not affect
existing users working with either SSPL or ELv2, and there will be
no change to Elastic’s binary distributions. Similarly, for users
building applications or using plugins on Elasticsearch or Kibana,
nothing changes — Elastic’s client libraries will continue to be
licensed under Apache 2.0.
For more information, read the blog or see the FAQs here and
here.
About Elastic
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find the answers they need in real-time using all their data, at
scale. Elastic’s solutions for search, observability and security
are built on the Elastic Search AI Platform, the development
platform used by thousands of companies, including more than 50% of
the Fortune 500. Learn more at elastic.co.
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