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In January 2021, the Elasticsearch project used such rights to move the project to a non-open-source license [6] arguing Amazon had been "misleading and confusing the community". Our license change is aimed at preventing companies from taking our Elasticsearch and Kibana products and providing them directly as a service without collaborating ...
proprietary license On 16 August 2017, the source code of the game engine was made freely available under proprietary license terms via GitHub. [3] [4] Apple DOS: Apple Inc. 1986 2015 No No No non-commercial license The Apple DOS source code was released by the Computer History Museum [5] after Paul Laughton, the creator of the code, donated it ...
An early example of an open-source project that did successfully re-license for license compatibility reasons is the Mozilla project and their Firefox browser. The source code of Netscape's Communicator 4.0 browser was originally released in 1998 under the Netscape Public License/Mozilla Public License [6] but was criticised by the FSF and OSI for being incompatible.
An end-user license agreement or EULA (/ ˈ j uː l ə /) is a legal contract between a software supplier and a customer or end-user. The practice of selling licenses to rather than copies of software predates the recognition of software copyright , which has been recognized since the 1970s in the United States.
Proprietary software vendors can prohibit the users from sharing the software with others. Another unique license is required for another party to use the software. In the case of proprietary software with source code available, the vendor may also prohibit customers from distributing their modifications to the source code.
Some developers have adopted the AGPL, and others have switched to proprietary licenses with features of open-source licensing. [120] For example, open-core developer Elastic switched from the Apache license to the "source-available" Server Side Public License. [121] Source-available software comes with source code as a reference. [122]
In this scenario, one option is a proprietary software license, which allows the possibility of creating proprietary applications derived from it, while the other license is a copyleft free software/open-source license, thus requiring any derived work to be released under the same license. The copyright holder of the software then typically ...
The Server Side Public License (SSPL) is a source-available copyleft software license introduced by MongoDB Inc. in 2018. [2] [3]It includes most of the text and provisions of the GNU Affero General Public License version 3 (AGPL v3), [4] but modifies its provisions for software that is conveyed over a network—requiring that anyone who offers the functionality of SSPL-licensed software to ...