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I wonder if non-ElasticCo contributors to Elastic Search who disagree with the SSPL license change can sue to have their contributions removed. Could even be a class action lawsuit if quite a few contributors disagree.

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All their contributions up until this point are still under the Apache license, so they'd have no reason to sue, I think. And anyone is of course free to fork that code and call it something else.

Now, it's very likely that many of them will stop contributing for versions 7.11 and up.

> All their contributions up until this point are still under the Apache license, so they'd have no reason to sue, I think

Ah right - makes sense.

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