# Question about licensing

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-about-licensing/158415>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 27, 2018, 8:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-about-licensing/158415 "2018-11-27T20:47:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![ESCoder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@ESCoder](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ESCoder)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2018, 8:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-about-licensing/158415/1 "2018-11-27T20:47:37Z")

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Hi,  
we are using ElasticSearch 6.x,  
With oracles announcement below,  
[https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/eol-135779.html](https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/eol-135779.html)

Will this have any impact on licensing that we should consider?  
thanks,

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2018, 10:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-about-licensing/158415/2 "2018-11-27T22:20:35Z")

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Licensing for, Elasticsearch? Something else?  
It's not really clear why you think the Oracle change would impact Elasticsearch sorry.

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**Author:** ![ESCoder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@ESCoder](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ESCoder)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2018, 2:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-about-licensing/158415/3 "2018-11-28T14:15:01Z")

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Hi, thanks for the response, yes i meant licensing for ElasticSearch, if we were to plan to use it for commercial purposes.  
thank you.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2018, 8:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-about-licensing/158415/4 "2018-11-28T20:37:04Z")

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Licensing for Elasticsearch is not related to licensing for java.

If you are using Elasticsearch for any use case then the Apache 2 and Elastic licenses apply depending on what functionality you use. See [here](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/blob/master/LICENSE.txt) for more info.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2018, 8:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-about-licensing/158415/5 "2018-12-26T20:37:08Z")

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