Elastic License 2.0

Also known as ELv2, Elastic License v2, Elastic-2.0.

Commercial use: allowed
Share alike: required
Attribution: required (keep the copyright and license notices)

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Write this as a license text (needs an account) DALICC reads the model above and writes what it permits, requires and prohibits in plain English. Without an account, the Text download above writes the model out from the vocabulary.

Canonical URI https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/Elastic-2.0

Permissions

Commercial use from the text
Derivative works from the text
Derive from the text
Duties
- Modification notice from the text
- Notice from the text
- Share alike from the text
Distribute from the text
Duties
- Notice from the text
- Share alike from the text
Modified works from the text
Modify from the text
Duties
- Modification notice from the text
- Notice from the text
- Share alike from the text
Patent grant from the text
Reproduce from the text

Prohibitions

Change license from the text
Promote from the text
Sublicense from the text

License-wide duties

This license states no duties that apply to the work as a whole.

What applies by default

The statements above are the library's reading of this license: each is marked with the sentence it rests on, or as a library convention where the text is not explicit. The statements below are the ones the DALICC reasoner supplies for acts the license says nothing about, from the default rules of the dependency graph it reasons with. Each one names the legal source it rests on. None of it is in the record.

No default rule of that graph reaches this license: it speaks about every act the rules are about.

Further terms

These are the things the license says about itself beyond the acts it permits, forbids and requires: when it ends, how long there is to put a breach right, which law governs it, and so on. A term that comes from the DALICC vocabulary links to its definition.

Patent license ends if you sue: Yes. Not a ban on suing: a patent claim over the work ends the patent license, or the whole license, as the text provides.
Cure period: 30 days
Field of use restriction: any use other than providing the software to third parties as a hosted or managed service that gives users access to a substantial set of its features
Terminates on breach: Yes

Clauses

Warranty disclaimer

As far as the law allows, the software comes as is, without any warranty or condition, and the licensor will not be liable to you for any damages arising out of these terms or the use or nature of the software, under any kind of legal claim.

Additional clauses

By using the software, you agree to all of the terms and conditions below.

Info

Target asset types: Software
Region / jurisdiction: Worldwide
Validity: Perpetual
Source: https://spdx.org/licenses/Elastic-2.0.html
Legal code: https://www.elastic.co/licensing/elastic-license
This description is published under: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Publisher: Elastic
SPDX identifier: Elastic-2.0 on the SPDX license list
Version: 2.0
DALICC identifier: Elastic-2.0

This record is published under CC BY 4.0. Credit it as: DALICC License Library, DALICC - Verein zur Förderung der Rechtssicherheit in der Datenbewirtschaftung, https://dalicc.net, CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The license it describes belongs to its publisher.

Use this license

Everything below is generated from this record. Replace the example address with the address of your own work.

JSON sidecar

{
  "license-uri": "https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/Elastic-2.0",
  "license-title": "Elastic License 2.0",
  "spdx-id": "Elastic-2.0",
  "asset": null,
  "generated-by": "DALICC"
}

RDF, Turtle

@prefix cc: <http://creativecommons.org/ns#> .

<https://example.org/my-work>
    cc:license <https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/Elastic-2.0> .

RDF, JSON-LD

{
  "@context": {
    "cc": "http://creativecommons.org/ns#"
  },
  "@id": "https://example.org/my-work",
  "cc:license": {
    "@id": "https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/Elastic-2.0"
  }
}

This license carries no attribution duty, so no credit line is offered here.

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Markdown

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HTML

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Review

Written from the license text by: Giray Havur
Written on: 2026-09-22
Second review: not yet done
Record changed since this review: yes (version 2, 2026-09-24)
Findings: 11 recorded, 7 applied to the record, 0 proposed

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.

11 findings

info Rubric 1 spdx:licenseId applied

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.
info Rubric 2 odrl:target applied

dcmitype:Software only. The text speaks of 'the software' throughout and of a licence key inside it.
major Rubric 3 odrl:permission applied

'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.
major Rubric 4 odrl:prohibition applied

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.'
major Rubric 5 odrl:duty applied

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.
major Rubric 6 dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer applied

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.
major Rubric 7 dalicc:terminatesOnBreach applied

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.
gap Rubric 8 dalicc:fieldOfUseRestriction none

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.
gap Rubric 8 dalicc:additionalClauses none

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.
info Rubric 9 record none

The consistency check of app.services.composer, run against licensedata/dependencygraph/dg_default.ttl, returned no conflicts.
major Rubric 10 record none

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.

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History

This license model has 2 versions. Version 2 is the one served today; every earlier version keeps its own address, so a conclusion drawn from one of them can still be checked against it.

Version 2 current2026-09-24 Giray Havur

The changes since version 1 recorded which sentence of the text each statement rests on, named the license the record itself is published under and removed the quotes that do not name the act they support.

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4 changes
- changed permission odrl:reproduce
  
  was permission odrl:reproduce
  
  Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "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, in each case subject to the limitations and conditions below."
- changed prohibition dalicc:ChangeLicense
  
  was prohibition dalicc:ChangeLicense
  
  Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "These terms do not imply any licenses other than those expressly granted in these terms."
- added dct:license <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>
  
  Manual edit Every record is published under CC BY 4.0. cc:license names the record DALICC keeps of that licence; dct:license now names it by the address Creative Commons publishes it at, so that a consumer matching the canonical IRI finds it.
- changed prohibition dalicc:ChangeLicense
  
  was prohibition dalicc:ChangeLicense
  
  Manual edit Removed the quoted evidence of prohibition dalicc:ChangeLicense: the quoted sentence does not name the act. The statements stay, read from the text without a linked quote.
Version 1

Created from the license text on 2026-09-22 (Source-available licences and riders).

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Every change names the reason behind it: a finding of the content review, one of its library-wide decisions, the metadata that review wrote onto every record, or a hand edit. None of it is legal advice.

Nothing on this page is legal advice. What a license means is decided by its text; ask a legal advisor before you rely on it.