Elasticsearch and Kibana announced the change after the open source licenses triggered a heated discussion the parties, but another key role in the whole incident - was Elastic CEO, issued a document rebuked the AWS has been no sound.
However, just today, AWS announced that it will create branches based on Elasticsearch and Kibana (version 7.10), which are still open source, and the open source license will continue to use Apache License 2.0. In order to ensure that the branches created by them can be well supported, AWS will be responsible for subsequent maintenance.
AWS claims that the branch it created is the "real" open source Elasticsearch. Obviously, this is a mockery of the dual-license solution (SSPL + Elastic License) that Elastic is about to adopt. After all, SSPL and Elastic License are not OSI-approved open source licenses.
AWS once launched the Elasticsearch release-Open Distro for Elasticsearch in 2019, which uses Apache License 2.0 and claims to be 100% open source.
According to AWS, in the process of building Open Distro for Elasticsearch, they followed the "upstream first" open source development practice that everyone respected. All changes to Elasticsearch were submitted to the upstream in the form of PR ( #42066 , #42658 , #43284 , #43839 , #53643 , #57271 , #59563 , #61400 , #64513 ), and merge the "oss" build provided by Elastic into the distribution they created.
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