Keeping Elasticsearch open

On January 14th, Elastic.co announced a change in the licensing of Elasticsearch from Apache v2.0 / Elastic combination to a more restrictive combination of Elastic License and SSPL. This caused concern among companies due to the use of SSPL which requires sharing the entire service source code freely at no charge if used as a service for third parties. In response, multiple companies began discussing alternatives. AWS announced on January 21st that they would be forking Elasticsearch and Kibana, forming a new open-source project with its own name to distinguish it from the original Elasticsearch project. The new project will have a governance model separate from any single company, ensuring contributions from the wider community. Aiven, an advocate of open source, is joining forces with this new fork and actively contributing to the project.