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Now part of Gitlab: https://about.gitlab.com/2015/08/18/gitlab-loves-mattermost/

Interesting licensing (normally AGPL/commercial but MIT just for Gitlab); I'm interested to find out more about how this is even possible: 1) "GitLab Mattermost" is available under an MIT license as a compiled version of "Mattermost", and 2) the MIT license does not apply to the "Mattermost" source code https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/omnibus-gitlab/issues/654

Mattermost team here. GitLab Mattermost is a binary, and GitLab community wanted the MIT license to align with GitLab's model, so that's the "commercial" license for GitLab.

One note to add is that the standard version of Mattermost is Apache-AGPL similar to MongoDB. So any organization comfortable with MongoDB should be fine with Mattermost.

MongoDB and Mattermost have Apache for drivers, configuration and administration so you can use and deploy the binaries without restriction. If modifications are made to the core product, those are required to be shared with the open source community.

Re: An open source Slack clone written in Golang and React

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Interesting licensing (normally AGPL/commercial but MIT just for Gitlab); I'm interested to find out more about how this is even possible: 1) "GitLab Mattermost" is available under an MIT license as a compiled version of "Mattermost", and 2) the MIT license does not apply to the "Mattermost" source code https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/omnibus-gitlab/issues/654

Mattermost team here. GitLab Mattermost is a binary, and GitLab community wanted the MIT license to align with GitLab's model, so that's the "commercial" license for GitLab. One note to add is that the standard version of Mattermost is Apache-AGPL similar to MongoDB. So any organization comfortable with MongoDB should be fine with Mattermost. MongoDB and Mattermost have Apache for drivers, configuration and administr…

For reference, the same question on the Mattermost forum http://forum.mattermost.org/t/why-is-gitlab-mattermost-licen...
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