ElasticSearch published the release of ElasticSearch-Py 7.14.0 , the official client library for Python language containing Changing blocking the ability to connect to servers that use not the original Commercial ElasticSearch Commercial Platform. The client library from now on will display an error if the product is used on the other side, which appears in the header “X-Elastic-Product” not as “ElasticSearch” for new issues, or not transmitting the Tagline and Build_Flavor fields for old versions.
ElasticSearch-PY Library continues to be supplied under the Apache 2.0 license, but its functionality is now limited only to the possibility of connecting to commercial products ElasticSearch. data Amazon Blocking It affects not only the fork Open Distro for ElasticSearch and OpenSearch , but also solutions based on open versions Elasticsearch. Similar changes Expect inclusion and to client libraries for JavaScript and Hadoop.
ElasticSearch actions are a consequence of the escalation of conflict with cloud providers who are engaged in resale elasticsearch in the form of cloud services, but do not acquire a commercial version of the product and do not help in developing. ELASTICSEARCH is unhappy with the fact that there are no cloud providers that resell ready-made open solutions, and directly developers remain with anything.
ElasticSearch tried to change the situation by moving the platform for an unscrew license SSPL (Server Side Public License) and stopping the publication of changes under the old APACHE 2.0 license. License SSPL is recognized OSI Organization (Open Source Initiative) Nutritional Open Source Criteria due to the presence of discriminatory requirements. Despite the fact that the SSPL license is based on AGPLV3, the text contains additional supply requirements under the SSPL license not only the code of the application itself, but also the source texts of all components involved in the provision of cloud service.
But this step only aggravated the situation and the joint efforts of Amazon, Red Hat, SAP, Capital One and Logz.io was created for OpenSearch