Listen now (11 mins) | Explore the recent licensing change made by Elastic, the company behind Elasticsearch and Kibana, and its impact on the open-source community. This post explains the benefits of Elasticsearch, the community backlash following the adoption of the SSPL license, and how AWS and other players responded with the OpenSearch fork. Understand the shift from Apache 2.0 to SSPL, the motivations behind it, and why it sparked concern across the industry.