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If companies want to make the software available under a license that allows me to use it for free, examine the source code, make changes, and release those changes to the community for others to use -- everything except taking their software and re-selling it directly, then I'm 100% fine with that.

I don't care about not being allowed to compete directly with Elastic using their own product against them.




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