[donor20]

This is their somewhat muddy response to the “trolls” who might say

“Changing the license was a mistake, and Elastic now backtracks from it”.

We removed a lot of market confusion when we changed our license 3 years ago. And because of our actions, a lot has changed. It’s an entirely different landscape now. We aren’t living in the past. We want to build a better future for our users. It’s because we took action then, that we are in a position to take action now.

[skywhopper]

This statement is confusing to me. I never found the old situation confusing, until Elastic started adding invented licenses and trying to claim openness while monopolizing the right to host their software. That was confusing.