# Future Licenses **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [May 18, 2016, 8:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/future-licenses/50318 "2016-05-18T08:33:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Maher\_Ben\_Taleb\_Ali](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/maher_ben_taleb_ali/32/26774_2.png) [@Maher\_Ben\_Taleb\_Ali](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Maher_Ben_Taleb_Ali)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2016, 8:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/future-licenses/50318/1 "2016-05-18T08:33:07Z")
Hi, Elasticsearch is an open source Text Search engine, released under apache License. you are upgrading your products frequently, wich is extreamly good! the question is, will you ever release an upgrade of elasticsearch under a commercial license or it will be always an open source product? Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![shanec](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/shanec/32/4004_2.png) [@shanec](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shanec)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2016, 2:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/future-licenses/50318/2 "2016-05-18T14:59:47Z")
"Will you ever \_\_\_\_\_" is always hard to answer because it's indefinitely out into the future! We don't currently have any plans to release an "enterprise" version of Elasticsearch under a separate license, for example. However, we do have [subscriptions](https://www.elastic.co/subscriptions) available where we offer additional products and services built on top of Elasticsearch. We plan to continue to add more value to those subscriptions via additional products/features over time while simultaneously adding more features into the open source projects. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 10:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/future-licenses/50318/3 "2017-07-05T22:50:35Z")