Bug#700337: RFP: kibana --- heads up: upstream license change to the non-free SSPL
Hi,
just a heads up for everyone interested in seeing Kibana (and maybe
ElasticSearch) in Debian:
The license for Kibana and ElasticSearch is changing:
https://www.elastic.co/de/blog/licensing-change
Citing from this page:
> Moving to the dual license strategy with SSPL or the Elastic License
> is a natural next step for us after opening our commercial code and
> creating a free tier, all under the Elastic License, nearly 3 years
> ago. It is similar to those made by many other open source companies
> over these years, including MongoDB, which developed the SSPL. The
> SSPL allows free and unrestricted use, as well as modification, with
> the simple requirement that if you provide the product as a service,
> you must also publicly release any modifications as well as the
> source code of your management layers under SSPL.
And this SSPL is exactly what caused MongoDB to be removed from Debian
as it is considered non-free. See these bug reports, especially the
first one, for details:
https://bugs.debian.org/915537 (ftp.debian.org: MongoDB SSPL v1 license and the DFSG)
https://bugs.debian.org/916107 (MongoDB should not be part of a stable release)
https://bugs.debian.org/947743 (RM: mongodb -- RoQA; rc-buggy; un-upgreadable due to license issues; …)
The same happened with MongoDB in RedHat Enterprise Linux:
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.0_release_notes/rhel-8_0_0_release#BZ-1647908
Regards, Axel
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