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My previous post on post-open source appeared to resonate with a lot of people, but unsurprisingly, not much has changed since then. Recently, the company Elastic, who makes the database Elasticsearch, changed the license on Elasticsearch from Apache to the Server-Side Public License, which (to oversimplify the analysis of the excellent Kyle E. Mitchell) is AGPL but even more so. And unsurprisingly, as happened with Redis and MongoDB before it, everyone got mad. When I wrote this snippet of m...