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Wasn't the EU Data Act (https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/data-act) put in place to exactly prevent these kind of scenarios (Article 4 and 5)?

"where the user cannot directly access the data from the connected product or related service, the data holder must make the readily available data and necessary metadata accessible to the user without undue delay, in the same quality as available to the data holder, easily, securely, free of charge, in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format, and continuously/in real time where relevant and technically feasible."

There is even special EU guidance for vehicle data for it: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/guidance-ve...

The Gitlab licensing model was recently change and the lowest tier starter license was removed. Anyone knows which of these new features a customer receives that is still on "starter" (which can be kept for up to one year after the change to the license model)?