What are your thoughts on projects using the Elastic License?

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    The leading data integration platform for ETL / ELT data pipelines from APIs, databases & files to data warehouses, data lakes & data lakehouses. Both self-hosted and Cloud-hosted.

  • Doing a quick GitHub search reveals quite a few projects using the ELv2 license, including Airbyte and InvoiceNinja. Elastic (the company) aside, what are your thoughts on the Elastic License v2? Does your employer allow projects with an ELv2 license? Do you consider it open source? I understand that it's not OSI approved, but wondering where people stand when it comes to commercial open source software.

  • Invoice Ninja

    Invoices, Expenses and Tasks built with Laravel, Flutter and React

  • Doing a quick GitHub search reveals quite a few projects using the ELv2 license, including Airbyte and InvoiceNinja. Elastic (the company) aside, what are your thoughts on the Elastic License v2? Does your employer allow projects with an ELv2 license? Do you consider it open source? I understand that it's not OSI approved, but wondering where people stand when it comes to commercial open source software.

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