> The hosted gitlab.com instance uses EE features so parent is correct to say that the gitlab.com site is not open source.
It’s OSS but with proprietary parts. That’s the issue with the term "open-source": their source code is indeed open [1] but it’s not 100% free (as in freedom).
Edit: mmh apparently I’m mistaken; according to another commenter this is called "open-core" and not "open-source" [2].
It’s OSS but with proprietary parts. That’s the issue with the term "open-source": their source code is indeed open [1] but it’s not 100% free (as in freedom).
Edit: mmh apparently I’m mistaken; according to another commenter this is called "open-core" and not "open-source" [2].
[1]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33237641