&gt; With GitLab 8.5, we’re offering GitLab Geo as an Alpha to all our Enterprise Edition customers. Once GitLab Geo has left Alpha &#x2F; Beta state, a special license will be required to use it.<p>I&#x27;m not sure I like this trend.<p>While I understand some features GitLab may feel its worth a &quot;second license&quot; fee, it sets a bad precedent.<p>Similarly, I don&#x27;t want to give you $390&#x2F;year for a GitLab instance with 2-3 users which keeps me from paying for the stuff I use for sideprojects. Although, tbh, if you are going the secondary license route for various features it seems I&#x27;m better off looking into an alternative and just implementing them myself.<p>I honestly was just using the post-receive hook, etc. for this sort of thing.