# Search Guard license

Search Guard is an Open Source project, which means that the source code is freely available for you to download and inspect.

## Community Edition

The Community Edition of Search Guard is licensed under the Apache2 license. 
It can be used for commercial and non-commercial projects free of charge. For the Community Edition, the following license terms apply:

```
Copyright 2015-2021 by floragunn GmbH

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.
```

The Community Edition consists of the following modules:

* plugin
* scheduler
* security
* signals
* support

The source code for the Community Edition is published here:

https://git.floragunn.com/search-guard/search-guard-suite


## Enterprise Edition

The Enterprise Edition of Search Guard is distributed under a commercial license. 
If you run any parts of the Enterprise Edition in production you need to obtain a license.

The Enterprise Edition consists of the following modules:

* dlic-security
* dlic-signals

The source code for the Enterprise modules is published here:

https://git.floragunn.com/search-guard/search-guard-suite-enterprise

All binaries of the Enterprise Modules in this distribution match the pattern “dlic-search-guard*.jar” and are not under Apache2 license.

For any of these files and the corresponding code the following statement applies:

```
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Copyright 2015-2021 by floragunn GmbH - All rights reserved

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed here is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
```

## Contact

If you are not sure whether your usage of Search Guard is compliant with the license conditions, please contact floragunn GmbH via:

info@search-guard.com

## Third-party libraries

For the license of every other third-party jar file in this distribution see the LICENSE file inside the each jar.

This archive includes files which are Copyright 2009-2021 Elasticsearch and which 
are licensed under the Server Side Public License and  the Elastic License 2.0, including:

```
elasticsearch-rest-highlevel-client-*.jar, rank-eval-client-*.jar, 
mapper-extras-client-*.jar, lang-mustache-client-*.jar, transport-netty-4-client-*.jar.
```

See the relevant files for the licenses. 

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