License on Filebeats

amarc · June 9, 2017, 5:29pm

Hi,
I am hoping to find what is the license with Filebeats (and ELK).
The Github page and documentation just says that its open-source.

github.com

elastic/beats/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

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# Contributing to Beats

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There are many ways to contribute, from writing tutorials or blog posts,
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If you want to contribute to the Beats project, you can start by reading
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in the _Beats Developer Guide_.

warkolm · June 10, 2017, 12:17am

It's Apache 2.

https://github.com/elastic/beats/blob/master/LICENSE

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