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On January 9, 2025, Datadog, a developer of a cloud-based monitoring and analytics observability platform, acquired Quickwit, an open source, cloud-native search engine for logs. Official announcement here. The change prompted a license change from AGPL to Apache 2.0.
Quickwit was only founded in 2020–a quick turnaround for this COSS company.
Heather is an attorney and internationally-known specialist in OSS licensing and COSS. She is the primary drafter of many software licenses, including Elastic 2.0, and served on the core drafting team for Mozilla Public License 2.0 and the PolyForm licenses. She has authored multiple books on open source, including From Project to Profit: How to Build a Business Around Your Open Source Project. She is a partner at Tech Law Partners and formerly a founding general partner at OSS Capital.
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