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 - Completely free and open source (MIT Expat license)
 - Powered by Ruby on Rails
 
+## Editions
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+There are two editions of GitLab.
+GitLab [Community Edition](https://about.gitlab.com/features/) (CE) is available without any costs under an MIT license.
+
+GitLab Enterprise Edition (EE) includes [extra features](https://about.gitlab.com/features/#compare) that are most useful for organizations with more than 100 users.
+To get access to the EE and support please [become a subscriber](https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/).
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 ## Canonical source
 
 - The source of GitLab Community Edition is [hosted on GitLab.com](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/) and there are mirrors to make [contributing](CONTRIBUTING.md) as easy as possible.