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JoshTriplett on Jan 18, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Dear open-source maintainers, a letter from GitLab

Have you ever considered using the AGPLv3 for the Community Edition, rather than the all-permissive MIT license?

Macha on Jan 18, 2016 [–]

I'm pretty sure they take outside contributions for CE, so if that was AGPL3 they wouldn't be able to use it in Gitlab EE, which sounds like shooting themselves in the foot.

lmm on Jan 19, 2016 | [–]

They could require a CLA for outside contributions. Many organizations do that.

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