Elastic returns to open source, but can it regain the community's trust? Some industry players aren't holding their breath

"We're delighted to reintroduce an OSI-approved open source license to Elasticsearch and Kibana. Elastic has always strongly believed in the ethos of open source and the clarity and transparency that it enables."

"The addition of AGPL will mean Elasticsearch and Kibana will be officially considered open source, allowing the Elastic community to use, modify, redistribute, and collaborate on Elastic's source code."

Amanda Brock commented, "Ending August, a month that has become associated with license changes away from open source, by welcoming Elastic back to the fold is great news."

Banon claimed adding AGPL will allow for more engagement and adoption from users, and boost the popularity of Elasticsearch as the runtime platform for retrieval augmented generation (RAG) and building generative AI applications.

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