GitLab

GitLab is a software repository manager. GitLab is similar to GitHub, but GitLab allows developers to store the code on their own servers rather than servers operated by GitHub.

GitLab.com
Type of site	collaborative revision control
URL	gitlab.com
Registration	optional
Current status	online

GitLab CE
Repository	gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab
Written in	Ruby
Type	Project management software
License	MIT License
Website	gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce

GitLab EE
Repository	gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab
Written in	Ruby
Type	Project management software
License	Proprietary
Website	gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce

Originally, the product was named GitLab and was full free and open source software distributed under the MIT License^[1].

In July 2013^[2], the product is splitted: GitLab Community Edition and GitLab Enterprise Edition. GitLab CE remains free and open source software distributed under the MIT License.

In February 2014^[3], GitLab EE is set under a proprietary license in and contains features not present in the CE version.

It is available as Omnibus package,^[4] as a one-click install from Bitnami^[5] and on DigitalOcean.^[6]

The software was written by Dmitriy Zaporozhets from Ukraine and the CEO, Sytse Sijbrandij is based in Utrecht. The code is written in Ruby. The company has six salaried employees and more than 600 open source contributors. It is used by more than 100,000 organisations including NASA, Alibaba, Invincea and O’Reilly Media.^[7]^[8]

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