Because this is Amazon, I frankly have no sympathy. They’re one of the richest companies in the world and they can’t be bothered to audit the code for open source compliance?
Honestly, I’m not sure, they could’ve necessarily known. If that third party removed any mentions of Elastic’s proprietary license and included an open-source license (or sold it to Amazon under a license that would allow them to open-source it), then you would need a pretty damn good open-source-compliance checker that has Elastic’s proprietary code in its database.
Which is not to say that I consider them completely out of the fold. If some tiny company sells you flawlessly working code for something that Elastic has been basing their livelihood of, you should investigate.
And as I understand it, you get access to Elastic’s proprietary code, if you’ve bought a license, so Amazon could’ve just compared code snippets, if they cared at all about not being horrendously shitty.
Because this is Amazon, I frankly have no sympathy. They’re one of the richest companies in the world and they can’t be bothered to audit the code for open source compliance?
Honestly, I’m not sure, they could’ve necessarily known. If that third party removed any mentions of Elastic’s proprietary license and included an open-source license (or sold it to Amazon under a license that would allow them to open-source it), then you would need a pretty damn good open-source-compliance checker that has Elastic’s proprietary code in its database.
Which is not to say that I consider them completely out of the fold. If some tiny company sells you flawlessly working code for something that Elastic has been basing their livelihood of, you should investigate.
And as I understand it, you get access to Elastic’s proprietary code, if you’ve bought a license, so Amazon could’ve just compared code snippets, if they cared at all about not being horrendously shitty.