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Gitlab's source-available proprietary model for "open core" is _worse_ than keeping that code secret, because it serves to poison community implementation of similar features.
@mattdm I feel like I don't often see Fedora folk criticize GitLab, but yeah... I agree. I am quite sad that Red Hat doesn't see more value in developing and offering Pagure to customers for private, on-site Git management.
@gordonmessmer Anyway, as far as open core companies go, Gitlab is probably the gold standard. https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/company/stewardship/ is pretty solid, really.
Although, their implementation of "We will always make it clear what is proprietary and what is open source code" is kind of weak.
They _used_ to have https://web.archive.org/web/20160419200109/https://about.gitlab.com/features/#compare, which is a _lot_ more useful than "here's two git repos you can diff!"
@mattdm @gordonmessmer It should be possible to write a quick parser for their docs and collect every feature header (where they display which variants the feature exists in) to perform an analysis. A new in-depth table could be generated from that. Really just looking for "Free" and "Self-Managed" to be in "Tier" and "Offering" respectively.
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/tree/master/doc?ref_type=heads
Is everything in those tiers open source?
@mattdm @gordonmessmer If it's available in the free tier *and* self-managed, I believe so.