Le 02/06/2021 à 03:35, K. Peachey a écrit :
There is also one of the search systems migrating to non O/S from
memory... elastic?
Hello,
Yes that is ElasticSearch. They have recently announced they are now
licensing code under Server Side Public License (SSPL)
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Side_Public_License> it is a viral
license which in short requires that any service based on such code get
licensed with the same license. I am not a lawyer, but I guess that
would imply that our whole stack switch to it as well. As such it is
not considered free by Debian or the Open Source Initiative (OSI).
As I understand it, the move has been made possible since all
contributions were subject to a Contributor License Agreement (CLA)
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contributor_License_Agreement>. So that
although the code was placed under a free license, the CLA effectively
grants unrestricted publishing right to an organization, they can thus
relicense the code however they want. If I get it right, the old code
is still under a free license but it can also be used under the new non
free license. As I get it the move has been done due to frictions
with Amazon which is providing a search service. Amazon announced they
would be behind the free community fork: https://www.opensearch.org/
<https://www.opensearch.org/>
Antoine "hashar" Musso
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