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Re:Ask HN: GitHub vs. Gitlab? by carussell on Sunday July 10, 2016 @08:03AM (#12065352)
> The primary author of RhodeCode formed a company, RhodeCode GmbH [...] The company announced a license change and added a 20-user maximum into the Python code for RhodeCode. That led to complaints, threats, and ultimately a patch to remove the 20-user restriction. The company then threatened the author of that patch. [...]

> The company claimed to have 100% of the copyright in RhodeCode, even though patches had been accepted from others

https://lwn.net/Articles/609709/

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Re:Ask HN: GitHub vs. Gitlab? by dmitry-k on Sunday July 10, 2016 @08:26AM (#12065400)
That's not true. Some parts (e.g. CSS and images) never were open source.

You can read more about why RhodeCode went back to open source (AGPL) here: https://rhodecode.com/blog/113/rhodecode-goes-open-source

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Re:Ask HN: GitHub vs. Gitlab? by carussell on Sunday July 10, 2016 @09:01AM (#12065464)
> That's not true.

You're going to need to be more specific than that.

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