Our Community Edition (CE) is MIT licensed and will always be free for everyone, without asking. We discussed giving GitLab Enterprise Edition (EE) licenses to open source projects. But it turned out that it is better to make the features that are essential open source completely <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10926400" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10926400</a> So we did that <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10931884" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10931884</a> and will keep doing that.