{"id":"Elastic-2.0","title":"Elastic License 2.0","reviewed_on":"2026-09-22","reviewer":"Giray Havur","text_source":"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spdx/license-list-data/main/text/Elastic-2.0.txt","text_retrieved":true,"verdict":"created","summary":"The record models the Elastic License 2.0, a short source-available licence. It grants use, copying, distribution, making available and derivative works, and then takes back three things: you may not offer the software to others as a hosted or managed service, you may not defeat the licence key, and you may not remove the licensor's notices. It is not an open source licence, because the first of those limitations restricts a field of use.","findings":[{"rubric":1,"severity":"info","field":"spdx:licenseId","description":"File name, record identifier, SPDX identifier and IRI local name agree. cc:legalcode is the URL the licence text gives for itself and dct:source the SPDX entry.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":2,"severity":"info","field":"odrl:target","description":"dcmitype:Software only. The text speaks of 'the software' throughout and of a licence key inside it.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":3,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:permission","description":"'The licensor grants you a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, non-sublicensable, non-transferable license to use, copy, distribute, make available, and prepare derivative works of the software.' That gives odrl:reproduce, odrl:distribute, odrl:modify, odrl:derive, cc:DerivativeWorks and dalicc:ModifiedWorks. dalicc:patentGrant for the patent paragraph. cc:CommercialUse is permitted because the licence restricts one act, offering the software as a service, and not income-generating use as such; no display or performance permission, because the grant lists neither.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":4,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:prohibition","description":"dalicc:sublicense for 'non-sublicensable'. dalicc:ChangeLicense for 'These terms do not imply any licenses other than those expressly granted in these terms' read with 'You must ensure that anyone who gets a copy of any part of the software from you also gets a copy of these terms'. dalicc:promote because the licence grants no trademark rights and says only that 'Any use of the licensor's trademarks is subject to applicable law'. dalicc:patentRetaliationTermination for 'If you or your company make any written claim that the software infringes or contributes to infringement of any patent, your patent license for the software granted under these terms ends immediately.'","action":"applied"},{"rubric":5,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:duty","description":"cc:Notice for the sentence that the terms travel with every copy and for the bar on removing notices, cc:ShareAlike for the same sentence read as a condition on what the recipient gets, and dalicc:modificationNotice on odrl:modify and odrl:derive for 'If you modify the software, you must include in any modified copies of the software prominent notices stating that you have modified the software.' The duties hang on the acts that trigger them, not on the licence as a whole.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":6,"severity":"major","field":"dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer","description":"The licence disclaims warranty and limits liability in one sentence, so the whole sentence is quoted into dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer and dalicc:LiabilityLimitation is left out rather than repeating the same words. CAL-1.0 does the same with the same wording. Ten further clauses are quoted in dalicc:additionalClauses.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":7,"severity":"major","field":"dalicc:terminatesOnBreach","description":"dalicc:terminatesOnBreach is true and dalicc:curePeriod is '30 days': 'If the licensor provides you with a notice of your violation, and you cease all violation of this license no later than 30 days after you receive that notice, your licenses will be reinstated retroactively.' cc:jurisdiction is dalicc:worldwide because the grant says 'worldwide'; the text names no governing law, so dalicc:governingLaw is absent.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":8,"severity":"gap","field":"dalicc:fieldOfUseRestriction","description":"The managed-service bar has no term. dalicc:fieldOfUseRestriction is the nearest literal and names it; the clause itself is quoted: 'You may not provide the software to third parties as a hosted or managed service, where the service provides users with access to any substantial set of the features or functionality of the software.' Proposed term: dalicc:competingServiceRestriction, a rule action for offering the licensed work to third parties as a service.","action":"none"},{"rubric":8,"severity":"gap","field":"dalicc:additionalClauses","description":"The licence-key clause has no term. dalicc:applyTechnicalProtectionMeasures is the mirror image of it, because it is about applying a measure, and this clause is about defeating one, so it is not used. The clause is quoted. Proposed term: dalicc:circumventTechnicalProtectionMeasures, a rule action a licence can prohibit.","action":"none"},{"rubric":9,"severity":"info","field":"record","description":"The consistency check of app.services.composer, run against licensedata/dependencygraph/dg_default.ttl, returned no conflicts.","action":"none"},{"rubric":10,"severity":"major","field":"record","description":"Its nearest siblings are RSALv2 and the Sustainable Use License, both written on the same skeleton of acceptance, copyright licence, limitations, patents, notices, no other rights, termination, no liability and definitions. This record differs from RSALv2 in the licence-key clause, which only this licence has, and in carrying no dalicc:governingLaw, which RSALv2 does. It differs from the Sustainable Use License in permitting cc:CommercialUse and in leaving the fee terms unstated rather than prohibiting them.","action":"none"}],"family":"Source-available licences and riders","port_of":null,"variant_kind":null,"variant_of":null,"notes":"The text quoted is the SPDX copy, which is identical to the copy the publisher ships with its own software. The record says nothing about what counts as 'a substantial set of the features or functionality', which is the question a reader of this licence usually has."}