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 - Complete continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment/delivery (CD) pipelines to build, test, and deploy your applications
 - Each project can also have an issue tracker, issue board, and a wiki
 - Used by more than 100,000 organizations, GitLab is the most popular solution to manage Git repositories on-premises
-- Completely free and open source (MIT Expat license)
+- Open-core, most of the code is MIT with the files in /ee being proprietary but source available and open for contributions.
 
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