https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2021/03/18/gitlab-licensed-technology-to-new-independent-chinese-company/
https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/18/gitlab_china_jihu/

\> And to keep other parties happy, the company insists *"there is no financial capital investment from GitLab Inc." Just the investment of that licensed code.*
\> The announcement comes less than two years after GitLab pondered the banning of Chinese support staff ...
\> It also comes in the wake of rival **GitHub's Chinese challenges** . Activists have used the source shack for stashing information frowned on by the Chinese government and GitHub itself came under an attack in 2015 that apparently originated in China.
\> One reaction to the freewheeling nature of GitHub has been the creation of government-anointed Git operator **Gitee**.
\> Into this wades GitLab and JiHu. JiHu will not be following GitLab's terms and conditions, permitting GitLab to state "JiHu has been working with the Chinese government independently to file the required paperwork to become an official company in China and secure the appropriate licensing for the SaaS business, as required."
\> As for the code, there will be three distributions of GitLab: the globally available and free open source software Community Edition (CE), an Enterprise Edition (EE) available everywhere except China, and the JiHu Edition (JE), which is China-only. Changes to the CE and EE will be mirrored to the JE, but changes to the JE will not be mirrored back. ®