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Congrats on the Show HN launch!

> It's been 3 years of Gitlab post-IPO and they're still MIT, and that's the boat we're on as well :)

I totally understand your optimism but keep in mind that GitLab was exploring a sale as at 4 months ago https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/google-backed-software...

If they get bought or have a change of management, they might revisit the MIT license.




> they might revisit the MIT license.

IANAL, but AIUI they for sure can do that to the content of the "ee" directory, but all other contributions are just DCO, not CLA https://about.gitlab.com/community/contribute/dco-cla/#which...




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