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Sure.

The Elastic license is also a change from Apache 2.0, and is also not an OSI approved license as far as I am aware.

Doesn't the elastic license specifically limit use of software to basic features, prohibit modification of licensing control mechanisms etc. I haven't dug through it, but it seemed FAR FAR different than a normal open source license.

One question I had - is the Elastic license transferable? Ie, if you run a startup and are bought out with an asset buyout, can you transfer the stack including the Elastic licensed software to the acquiring party (assuming in the interim elastic has ceased to offer new elastic licenses so they can't get their own). Can you sell software built out on elastic licensed code and transfer the elastic license to the users so they can also use it? Or does everyone need to go back to elastic to get these licenses.

A lot of discussion about being open, but reading the details - seems far from open at first glance.