Can the "open source" product as is be legally used as self-hosted not-enterprise-enabled at all?

[piotrekzurek]

Bug description

Signoz seems to be a really nice product but it seems that according to
the ee/LICENSE says that the product can only be used in production under an enterprise agreement with Signoz.

Correct me if I'm wrong but query-service is essential to running the product in what you have in ie. docker-compose.yaml and it is under that ee/LICENSE, right?

Please explain or fix - how would I even evaluate the product in testing (self-hosted) in accordance to licensing when it's actually either prohibited to do so ("can be used only in production") or even technically infeasible (the product cannot properly run without query-service at all).
Being that you encourage in product documentation that it can be easily run using ie. docker it's ambigous at least when it comes to licensing and running the product in either testing or planning to run in production (possibly in a self-hosted DIY environment).

Expected behavior

1. The licensing terms should allow to actually run the product at least in testing environment with accordance to licensing. Unless the intent is to not allow it in which case it should be put straight in the docs.

2. The documentation should mention any licensing scheme being used by the product (it does not mention it at all currently).

3. If the above is just an uninteded licensing mess then the proper open source version of the product should be created that is actually a usable set of components.

Greetings,
Peter

[welcome]

Thanks for opening this issue. A team member should give feedback soon. In the meantime, feel free to check out the contributing guidelines.

[piotrekzurek]

Nevermind, I did a closer examination of the repo. I assume the /ee/ dir holds currently only some additional components to query-service, right?

[ankitnayan]

@piotrekzurek yes. Most of the features are part of OSS and users are free to use the product without ee license also. I will have a closed look at the license section you pointed out and make it more clear.