GitLab makes changes for cloud and commercial users

It came this morning letter from GitLab, about changes to the service agreement. The translation of this letter will be under the cut.

Translation:

Important Updates to Our Service Agreement and Telemetry Services

Dear GitLab user!

We have updated our Service Agreement regarding our use of telemetry services.

Existing customers using our proprietary products (Gitlab.com service and Enterprise Edition on their hardware) may, starting with version 12.4, see additional inserts in js scripts interacting with GitLab or a third-party telemetry service (for example Pendo).

For Gitlab.com users: After upgrading, you must accept our new Service Agreement. Access to the web interface and API will be blocked until the new terms are accepted.
This may result in a pause in service through our API for those customers using our API integration until the terms and conditions are accepted after logging in via the web interface.

For users with their own hardware: GitLab Core remains free software. GitLab Community Edition (CE) remains a great option if you want to install GitLab without using proprietary software. It is released under license MIT, and will not contain proprietary software. Many open source projects use GitLab CE for their SCM and CI needs. Again, there will be no changes to GitLab CE.

Key changes:

Gitlab.com (the SaaS version of GitLab) and proprietary self-install packages (Starter, Premium and Ultimate) will now include additional inserts in JavaScript scripts (both open source and proprietary) to interact with both GitLab and possibly , with third-party telemetry services (we will use SaaS pendo).

We will disclose all such uses in our privacy policy, including the purposes for which the data collected is used. We will also ensure that any third-party telemetry service we use has data security standards at least as good as those already in place at GitLab, and we will strive to be SOC2 compliant. Pendo is SOC2 compliant.

If you have any questions, please contact us at [email protected]

Thank you,

GitLab Team

What do you think about that?

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UPD: GitLab postponed introducing telemetry into their products: Enterprise Edition - will not be added (yet?), but in the SaaS service Gitlab.com - you will need to explicitly refuse it (by installing Do-Not-Track in the browser for this service). In addition to Pendo, Snowplow will be used.

Source: habr.com