Colorize is a gem licensed under the GPLv2, so we can’t use it in GitLab without relicensing GitLab under the terms of the GPL. Rainbow is licensed under the MIT license and does the exact same thing as Colorize, so Rainbow was added in place of Colorize.
The syntax is slightly different for Rainbow vs. Colorize, and was updated in accordance.
The gem is still a dependency of Spinach, so it’s included in the development/test environments, but won’t be packaged with the actual product, and therefore doesn’t require we relicense the product.
An attempt at relicensing Colorize was made, but didn’t succeed as the library owner never responded.
Rainbow library: https://github.com/sickill/rainbow
Relevant issue regarding licensing in GitLab's gems: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/3775
In e23a26a (and later 1bc9936) the API for Gitlab::LDAP::Adapter was
changed. I assume this rake task was an oversight in the refactoring of
the changed class.
While being on it, I noticed that already blocked users cannot be
blocked again.
