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Thank you for the pointer. I modified the introduction to make it clear we run on Gitlab in the first sentence.

By the way, the Gitlab.io owner (me) is not the main developer of Gitlab (randx) https://github.com/randx He is also mentioned in the 'Thanks to' section.

We state this clearly on gitlab.io, the first sentence in the section 'About the Gitlab project' is: "Gitlab is a separate project and is not affiliated with Gitlab.io."

Which Gitlab tagline are you referring to?



Sorry, I messed up. I misread gitorius instead of gitolite.

The tagline is from http://gitlabhq.com/

"Fast, secure and stable solution based on Ruby on Rails & Gitolite. Distributed under the MIT License."

Gitolite is GPL2 and Gitlabs MIT. I was just wondering how Gitolite project keeps the license compatibility.

Please ignore my previous comment on AGPL vs MIT, that was due to my misreading of Gitorius->Gitolite. This misreading was probably affected by the http://gitlab.io/ site where it's said that "Gitlab ... similar to ... and Gitorious".


I'm not the author of Gitlab or a lawyer but I think Gitlab can use a different license than GPL2 because it is not a derivative work, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License#Link...




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