This means this project is abandoning open source and free software, as the Elastic License is not an open source license.<p>> <i>The Apollo developer community is at the heart of everything we do. As stewards of our community, we have a responsibility to prevent harm from anyone who intends to exploit our work without contributing back. We want to continue serving you by funding the development of important open-source graph technology for years to come. To honor that commitment, we’re moving Apollo Federation 2 to the Elastic License v2 (ELv2).</i><p>One of these things can't be true.<p>It's really disheartening to see fake-open-source projects like this tout "the community" without realizing that taking software freedoms away (which is what this not-open-source license does) is ultimately an antisocial move. Being able to run a business off of a private fork of the <i>software you gave away</i> is not a bug, it's a feature. It's not exploiting anyone.<p>There are lot of fake open source people and companies around now. Docker Desktop, for example, isn't even source available.<p>Similarly, I personally view the AGPL as a nonfree license, although it's being pushed by anticapitalist zealots at the FSF who of course invented the notion of software freedom in the first place so my classification is, of course, controversial.