Looking for feedback on Elastic's SSPL license type change. Is anybody else worried? Any other companies seek legal counsel already? What have your lawyers said about it?

As we use the builds from the elastic.co and the Elastic License hasn't changed, there is zero impact for us.

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Nonetheless, I find it an absolute asshole change. I won't defend Amazon's action, but Elastic does not behave much better.
In their reasoning (https://elastic.co/de/blog/...) they accuse Amazon of trademark and Elastic License violation. Both things are better resolved at a court, and not by affecting everyone. While Amazon has more money to pay lawyers, the case seems clear here.
And it will not make any difference for Amazon: As they have shown with MongoDB, they can just build a compatible equivalent.

I rather think, Elastic still doesn't run profitable (-10% margin since years) and wants to make more money, despite calling it "strong results" multiple times (https://ir.elastic.co/news-events/...).

opensource wants to make some money but nobody wants to pay for it 🤣

@sbiewald I'm excited to see what AWS builds in response. What other alternatives other than Solr reasonably exist in this space?

@rim01 This is simply not true, Elastic has a gross revenue of around a half billion dollars each year.

if they do not care about money they will not change license, because they just do not care about it. so I think what I said is true they want to get money from service providers but service providers does not want to pay.