Follow-up Comment #11, task #14536 (project administration): As far as I know, the FSF does not generally consider connecting to a service over the network to be the equivalent of linking, or a plugin. The two licenses need not be compatible.
>From your description, I'm not convinced that Elasticsearch is nonfree. It would depend on exactly how all the pieces interact; and that analysis seems unnecessary for us. We're not being asked to host Elasticsearch. IMHO ... -k _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?14536> _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/