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Re:Apache Software Foundation joins GitHub open source commu... by linuxftw on Monday April 29, 2019 @09:43AM (#19778270)
I feel the same. If Gitlab released the community edition as MIT license (not sure what the license is offhand) with no proprietary version, there's nothing stopping some 3rd party from creating proprietary versions/extensions of their own product.
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Re:Apache Software Foundation joins GitHub open source commu... by sbr464 on Monday April 29, 2019 @10:11AM (#19778468)
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce

I’m pretty sure it’s MIT. This page says it is.

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Re:Apache Software Foundation joins GitHub open source commu... by snazz on Monday April 29, 2019 @09:48AM (#19778302)
Yes. BSD-derived licenses do not stop someone from distributing a proprietary version, while the GPL does (although you can still charge for your version even with the GPL, you just have to distribute your source with the package and make it available under the GPL).
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