If I use the prebuilt binaries or docker image distributed by the elastic team will those also be covered by the AGPL license or do I need to build the binary/image from source?
We do not currently offer any downloadable distribution that is covered by the AGPL.
What about in the future when the new license change takes effect?
Nothing will change.
The license change simply adds AGPL as a source code license option in the places where SSPL was previously available.
We have not plans to change how Elasticsearch is distributed.
Right, so sounds like I would need to build the code from scratch then. Thanks for the answer Tim