Re:GitLab Isn’t Really Open-Source
by the_af on Monday June 04, 2018 @02:37PM
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Free Software and Open Source's differences are more philosophical than technical/legal [0]. This means that if something cannot be Free Software it cannot, more often than not, be Open Source either.
If you cannot deploy it without a paid subscription, it's not Open Source by most commonly accepted definitions of the term.
If you cannot deploy it without a paid subscription, it's not Open Source by most commonly accepted definitions of the term.
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[0] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.en....