In June 2021, Elastic announced changes to its licensing model for Elasticsearch and Kibana, moving from Apache 2.0 to a dual licensing system under Elastic License 2.0 (ELv2) and SSPL, allowing users to choose their preferred license. ELv2, described as a permissive, fair-code license, permits free use and modification with minimal restrictions. This shift aims to reduce confusion caused by Amazon's Elasticsearch fork, ensuring users have a consistent experience with Elastic's products. Since the announcement, Elastic has released multiple updates, enhancing features and integrations, and ensuring products like Beats and Logstash verify connections to genuine Elasticsearch clusters. The transition from Elastic License 1.0 to ELv2 is also underway for other Elastic products, aligning their licensing model to be simpler and more permissive. Elastic has committed to transparency throughout this transition and provides resources for users with questions.