Shay Banon details a lawsuit filed by Elastic against floragunn GmbH, developers of the Elasticsearch security plugin Search Guard, for allegedly copying source code from Elastic's proprietary security features. The issue was discovered after Elastic made its code publicly accessible, revealing a history of what Elastic describes as intellectual property theft by floragunn, involving decompiling binary releases to copy code before it was opened. Elastic filed the lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California and issued a DMCA takedown notice to prevent the distribution of the infringing code. Elastic informs Search Guard users that they might be running infringing code and highlights that Elasticsearch now includes free security features to avoid the need for unprotected clusters, urging concerned users to reach out for support.