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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.
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Change Airbyte is open source to Airbyte is source available #17118

Open dennisjaheruddin opened 2 years ago

dennisjaheruddin commented 2 years ago

Everywhere the website and github seem to mention that Airbyte is open source.

However the license default is Elastic v2. This license is not OSI approved.

As a result Elastic has stopped referring to their offerings as Open Source, but instead uses Source available. (Explained here: https://www.elastic.co/pricing/faq/licensing)

Hence the recommendation to update the wording "Airbyte is Open Source", in all places to "Airbyte is Source Available".

ssddanbrown commented 1 year ago

Just commenting to advise that I've seen a lot of mis-labeling of Airbyte as open source, likely because the website portrays it as so. This page in particular could mislead folks into thinking Airbyte is open source with its "Deploy Airbyte open source" and "Self-host Airbyte Open Source" wording. In addition the footer of your website contains the following:

Airbyte is an open-source data integration engine

Additionally, having this as an initial line of the readme, in addition to shown a License: MIT badge, could confuse folks:

We believe that only an open-source solution to data movement can cover the long tail of data sources while empowering data engineers to customize existing connectors

I do think this is important since portraying the project as open source could somewhat "entrap" users that are led to think this project is provided with rights aligned to the open source definition. For why else this matters, I've previously written my thoughts in my blog post here.