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Can you explain why the enterprise version is a red flag? Would you expect the company to make money some other way?
It's not a big red flag, but it indicates that the product is not fully open source. You can get the full community edition from Github, but for the Self-hosted Enterprise version you have to contact sales.
So all the Enterprise features are most likely closed source, and when you buy/license it, you'll just get the compiled version. And since their Cloud hosting model has a "Per 1,000 sessions/mo" model, their Enterprise self hosted model might have that as well. So it'll have some kinda DRM/License managing, and maybe a "call home" to check your license or usage every once in a while
The point of the license combination they use is to allow the enterprise version to be open and live in the same repo as everything else. Dunno if that's what they do, but that's why the elastic license exists.