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GitLab is not open source though. They call their approach "open core" which imho is just a marketing gimmick to appear as an open source solution when in fact
by whoisjuan 8y ago
GitLab is not open source though. They call their approach "open core" which imho is just a marketing gimmick to appear as an open source solution when in fact they are not fully open source.
- eropple 8y agoI am not a big fan of GitLab-the-company. But GitLab CE is licensed as MIT. You can do with it what you wilt. I have a hunch that your actual complaint is that they too do with it what they wilt, and what they wilt is not "give to you everything they add on top of GitLab for free and forever".
- whoisjuan 8y agoYes. That's what I meant, but also I don't think that's a bad thing. Building software is hard and expensive. I think is valid to only open source certain parts of your system and reserve the right to monetize other parts and features.
- TAForObvReasons 8y agoThis is not a fair criticism. There is a truly open source version under an actual good-faith open source MIT license: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/LICENSE https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/LICENSE GitHub does not have anything remotely close to that.
- whoisjuan 8y agoGood point. I'm not criticizing. I'm a very happy GitLab customer and love what they do. But just wanted to point out that they don't call themselves "Open Source" and their business model is not necessarily an open source first kind of business.