[Ellahn]

Congratulations on GitLab, I personally use it and love it, and it's awesome to see amazing people like the VLC team considering GitLab.

A suggestion I have is to consider open-sourcing and re-branding EE on a GPL-Like license that also requires projects hosted with it to be open sourced, while specifying that contributions to this version can be re-licensed by GitLab to be used by paying customers (Or re-licensed to MIT and released on CE). This way open source people get it all, and if you want to use it on closed source you pay GitLab.

This also has the benefit of allowing open source developers to work with GPL, and the changing to MIT could even be decided before merging (Sending to either CE on MIT or EE on GPL+GitLabProprietary, according to developer decision).

There's a lot to fix on the OpenSource world, but there are also so many possible ways. Best of luck to the GitLab team, I hope we see more amazing stuff from you (Btw, GitLab CI got a lot better recently, I hope you keep improving it. :D)

[sytse]

Thanks for the kind words Ellahn. You suggestion is interesting. I'm afraid that releasing EE under a GPL-like license that prevents private projects is confusing. It would be GPL-like instead of GPL. I think that such a license muddles the waters and would not be in the best interest of open source. I presume that people want to be free to do as they please with the software, not be restricted to how they use it.