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Wikimedia will self-host Gitlab. They can use whatever limits they want.

They are still very limited when it comes to functionality though - only the first column in https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/self-managed/feature-compar... , right?

My understanding is you can self host and pay a sub and get access to all the other features. I may be wrong.

That's correct - with the GitLab Enterprise Edition you can self-host GitLab and get access to all of the features - both those from the Core open source version as well as our proprietary features.

Yes, but that's only if you self-host the Enterprise Edition which contains non-free code, not the Community Edition which only contains free code.

All of those are self-hosted.

"Core" is the free community edition. The others are not open source/free and require payment.

Core is plenty for most use cases. That table makes it look like it has almost no features, but most items in the list are either advanced or pretty niche.

Right, so is Wikimedia going to pay $$$ to GitLab for one of the more advanced licenses?

According to their pricing page: "We provide free Gold and Ultimate licenses to qualifying open source projects and educational institutions. Find out more by visiting our GitLab for Open Source and GitLab for Education program pages."

I'm sure Wikimedia has the dosh to pay for licenses themselves, but it's hard to see how the per/user pricing model would work for any open source project.

No, Wikimedia is going to be using the Community Edition (CE) of GitLab, which is free and open source under an MIT license. This decision and the reasons for it are described in more detail in the FAQ section of the linked article.

They probably use the free Open Source option, which gives access to the top tiers for free.

https://about.gitlab.com/solutions/open-source/

That means they are running non-free code, which seems to be one of their main points against Github.

It's community edition.

The community edition doesn't have any tiers or features, those are only in the Enterprise Edition.

This requires asking for a specific number of license seats for your open source project and that's impossible to work with. Every possible user account/contributor takes up a license. How many contributors will I have tomorrow? Don't know. How many spam accounts will I have that waste license seats? Too many, and they're impossible to clean up.

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