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| author | Andrea Kao <eirinikos@gmail.com> | 2018-04-10 11:13:07 -0700 |
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| committer | Andrea Kao <eirinikos@gmail.com> | 2018-04-10 11:13:07 -0700 |
| commit | f0ef51729dec490ae2f3a57c4e8d459a224a9193 (patch) | |
| tree | a64d33b0d1c2cea8d417f0c18c4920c4a160c146 /README.md | |
| parent | 60d346495827f60f58ae799207522ee0115fa20d (diff) | |
| download | gitlab-ce-f0ef51729dec490ae2f3a57c4e8d459a224a9193.tar.gz | |
edit GitLab license info so that GitHub recognizes it
GitHub uses a library called Licensee to identify a project's license
type. It shows this information in the status bar and via the API if it
can unambiguously identify the license.
This commit updates the LICENSE file so that it contains the exact text
of the MIT license. It also moves the reference to third-party software
licensing to the README.
These changes allow Licensee to successfully identify the license
type of GitLab's codebase as MIT.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Kao <eirinikos@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 9ead6d51c5d..9c1aad65307 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -67,6 +67,12 @@ You can access a new installation with the login **`root`** and password **`5ive GitLab is an open source project and we are very happy to accept community contributions. Please refer to [CONTRIBUTING.md](/CONTRIBUTING.md) for details. +## Licensing + +GitLab Community Edition (CE) is available freely under the MIT Expat license. + +All third party components incorporated into the GitLab Software are licensed under the original license provided by the owner of the applicable component. + ## Install a development environment To work on GitLab itself, we recommend setting up your development environment with [the GitLab Development Kit](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-development-kit). |