Community Meeting - Jan 26, 2021

OpenDistro
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“I am not a lawyer BUT” the docs are in the main repo:

https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/docs/

From https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/blob/master/LICENSE.txt

Source code in this repository is covered by one of three licenses: (i) the
Apache License 2.0 (ii) an Apache License 2.0 compatible license (iii) the
Elastic License. The default license throughout the repository is Apache License
> 2.0 unless the header specifies another license. Elastic Licensed code is found
only in the x-pack directory.

The docs directory does not specify another license, nor do the files contain any license header.

So I would say they are good to fork, but I’m pretty sure you have the right legal guys to confirm that.

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The strongest signal is the header, so we can be sure of the license on those. We are being as careful as possible - our ‘people’ are on it.

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The above mentioned page has now been updated to reflect the new licensing: