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amphi-ai / amphi-etl

Low-code ETL for structured and unstructured data. Generates Python code you can deploy anywhere.
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Your project is not open source, as it uses Elastic License 2.0 #33

Closed oyarsa closed 1 week ago

oyarsa commented 1 week ago

The Elastic License 2.0 is not open-source compliant, so calling your project open-source is incorrect.

The first item in the license's Limitations section:

Limitations

You may not provide the software to third parties as a hosted or managed service, where the service provides users with access to any substantial set of the features or functionality of the software.

Directly contradicts the Open Source Initiative's definition of open-source:

1. Free Redistribution

The license shall not restrict any party from selling or giving away the software as a component of an aggregate software distribution containing programs from several different sources. The license shall not require a royalty or other fee for such sale.

More commentary on this issue:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40724610 https://funnelfiasco.com/blog/2021/02/03/thoughts-on-elastic-license-v2/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36760635

I'm not making any judgement of why you chose this license, merely the fact that you advertise yourselves as open-source when you're not.

tgourdel commented 1 week ago

Thank you for the constructive feedback; it's rare these days. I see this raises a lot of emotions. I'll consider other licenses or changing my wording. Thanks.