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Well, you are. Let me read to you the definition of Open Source:

> Open source software is software that can be freely used, changed, and shared (in modified or unmodified form) by anyone.



That's not the definition of "open source", that's the definition of "free software". As you can see by this very article, "open" and "free" are not the same.

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.e...


They are: http://opensource.org/osd

The only difference is their argument. Free software uses ethical arguments, open source denies ethics altogether and uses consequentialist arguments related to business value and technical superiority (which are becoming increasingly criticized).



Yes. Because of the ethical standpoint, free software inherently opposes DRM, Tivoization, "trusted computing" and software patents, whereas open source in general has no intrinsic view on them.


I disagree. Would it be accurate to call The GitLab Enterprise Edition "open source"? If not, what would you call it?


> what would you call it?

I've heard the term "shared source" which is pretty self explanatory - you can view the source but it's not open/free.


It's not open source because "open source" is a term with an established definition by the OSI that GitLab Enterprise does not meet.


We call it proprietary to prevent any confusion.


Great, the age-old debate on what is and isn't open source vs free software. We really needed that in here.

Y'all need to stop whining about the irrelevant when companies like these are doing literally everything else right. It's pretty damn ungrateful.


It's far from irrelevant. Free software advocates are clear: proprietary software is unacceptable, in any form, for any reason.

It has nothing to do with being ungrateful. We express our appreciation when software is liberated, or when developers/companies are working toward it. But it does not change the fundamental philosophy.


Except of course CE is free software, and this all stems from GP misinterpreting a very-well-worded source available note.


Irrelevant to you perhaps. But please don't tell people to shut up. What you say can also be regarded as whining btw - you mean good, I think, but this just won't help one bit. Better to participate constructively than to express this type of annoyance.


It truly is distressing how programmers whose livelihood depends on free software (or "open source", if you prefer) are often so ignorant about it.


But that's the enterprise license, not the community license.

When they say "In fact, even our proprietary version of GitLab, GitLab Enterprise Edition, has a publicly viewable source code", I don't think they're implying it's open source.


Indeed, GitLab EE is proprietary, GitLab CE is open source (MIT Expat)


Their community edition is open source, no?




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