Elasticsearch controversies
Controversies tied to this brand in public sources. A listing is not a finding of fault.
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2021
Elasticsearch licensing controversy
Elastic's decision to move affected Elasticsearch and Kibana source code away from Apache License 2.0 generated sustained criticism from parts of the open-source community. Critics argued that the change contradicted earlier expectations and risked fragmenting the ecosystem. Elastic said it was responding to cloud providers commercializing the software without adequate collaboration.
2021
AWS fork and trademark dispute
AWS created OpenSearch as an Apache-licensed fork after Elastic's licensing change. The resulting dispute included disagreement over the use of the Elasticsearch name and later developed into a trademark infringement lawsuit that the parties announced as resolved in 2024.