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by vbsteven 1804 days ago
Elastic requires contributors to sign a CLA. Their CLA does not reassign copyright but gives Elastic a license to distribute contributed code without restrictions. [1]

Elastic changed the license for Elasticsearch >7.10.2 from Apache to a more restrictive one to prevent cloud providers like AWS from providing a hosted version.

[1] https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/blob/master/CONTRIB...