Elastic UI – design library in use at Elastic to build internal products

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42 points·patrickdevivo··12 comments

Nice framework, but the license is oh so strange...

https://github.com/elastic/eui/blob/main/licenses/ELASTIC-LI...

> 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.

So you may not use it, at all, ever?

When I read that same bit it sounds more like you can offer a product, such as some tool for your service, built on top of the library. You can't offer the library itself as your product.

My best guess at a transition point would be, does reading the documentation of the library help the end user? If so you are probably releasing the library as a product and not your own product.

a bit late to edit, but in retrospect: s/probably/potentially/

More of the "Amazon can't use this to compete with us" stuff?

It just looks like their legal department was bored and/or doesn't get software.

Agreed, it's a shame the wording on this license is so confusing as it's a really nice framework... just way to confusing about what you can/can't do with it

These custom licenses make it too difficult to reason about, without hiring an attorney to verify assumptions

Really great to see a good JS chart library that's truly open source

Took me a minute to find this on mobile. Looks nice. Lots of chart types. Wonder how it performs.

https://elastic.github.io/elastic-charts/

7+ seconds of loading on mobile is a nonstarter.

The elastic license isn't quite open source by the normal definition.

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