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Re:Dear open-source maintainers, a letter from GitLab by lexicality on Monday January 18, 2016 @05:12PM (#10927397)
> I still don't know how I feel about GitLab. My initial reaction was that they were an underhanded, cheap knockoff of GitHub. It felt kind of dirty, like they were stealing GitHub's thunder and giving it away for free.

Seems like they were just following in the footsteps of one of Open Source's great prophets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman#Events_leadin...

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Re:Dear open-source maintainers, a letter from GitLab by cyphar on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @01:07AM (#10929114)
Richard Stallman is the "prophet" of free software. The EE license is not a free software license (and probably isn't an open source one either). The given license doesn't give you any of the four essential freedoms.
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