I'm pretty happy with this, since they are keeping the option to use the Elastic License. Now everyone can be happy. To me, it's weird that the AGPL is any more "open source" than the Elastic License. The AGPL requires you to publish all of your source code if you make any changes to the product; the Elastic License just says, "don't use our code to make a direct competitor to Elasticsearch". I find the former to be much more restrictive in most practical ways since the majority of companies don't want to open source their code, but very few of them plan to sell hosted search.
Personally, I do wish that there was more broad acceptance of the Elastic License. Who wants to put in years building a business and then have a competitor with better distribution take your code and compete directly with you? For me, the reasons to want open-source code are:
* If a vendor goes under, I can self-host
* If a vendor raises prices too much, I can self-host
* If there's a bug in the code that affects me too much, I can fix it
* If there's a feature I really need, I can add it
The Elastic License allows for all of the above. Seems fair to me.
Personally, I do wish that there was more broad acceptance of the Elastic License. Who wants to put in years building a business and then have a competitor with better distribution take your code and compete directly with you? For me, the reasons to want open-source code are:
* If a vendor goes under, I can self-host
* If a vendor raises prices too much, I can self-host
* If there's a bug in the code that affects me too much, I can fix it
* If there's a feature I really need, I can add it
The Elastic License allows for all of the above. Seems fair to me.