70 open source tools under GPL-2.0
All 70 projects licensed under GPL-2.0, ranked by GitHub stars. Activity and language shown per project; data refreshed nightly.
Free, open-source software for video recording and live streaming
Self-hosted media server for movies, music, and more
Cultivate vibrant online communities with ease
Cut and trim video without re-encoding or quality loss
A library that provides an embeddable, persistent key-value store for fast storage.
Advanced terminal with modern features for Mac developers
Open-source ecommerce platform for WordPress
The Pencil Project's unique mission is to build a free and opensource tool for making diagrams and GUI prototyping that everyone can use.
Complete Open Source and Modular solution for MMO
Animated sprite editor & pixel art tool -- Fork of the last GPLv2 commit of Aseprite
AI,Opensource,Database,Business,Finance,Minds. git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/digoal/blog
MariaDB server is a community developed fork of MySQL server. Started by core members of the original MySQL team, MariaDB actively works with outside developers
WiFi security auditing tools suite
A maintained ctags implementation
Next generation web scanner
Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine developed by the OISF and the Suricata comm
A lightweight client for managing MariaDB, MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Interbase and Firebird, written in Delphi and Lazarus/FreePascal
QOwnNotes is a plain-text file notepad and todo-list manager with Markdown support and Nextcloud / ownCloud integration.
Home of the Joomla! Content Management System
Terminal-based CPU stress and monitoring utility
OSSEC is an Open Source Host-based Intrusion Detection System that performs log analysis, file integrity checking, policy monitoring, rootkit detection, real-ti
The DokuWiki Open Source Wiki Engine
Double Commander is a free cross platform open source file manager with two panels side by side.
PowerDNS Authoritative, PowerDNS Recursor, dnsdist
Application for Mind Mapping, Knowledge Management, Project Management. Develop, organize and communicate your ideas and knowledge in the most effective way.
Organize thousands of photos with ease
A fast and lightweight IDE
fheroes2 is a recreation of Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine
ProGuard, Java optimizer and obfuscator
Performance monitoring tools for Linux
Figma is the first interface design tool based in the browser, making it easier for teams to create software. Join us in https://t.me/figma_linux
Vifm is a file manager with curses interface, which provides Vim-like environment for managing objects within file systems, extended with some useful ideas from
Secure open-source Android browser with support for extensions
Misago is fully featured modern forum application that is fast, scalable and responsive.
Thinking notebook and Markdown editor.
Powerful, customizable web analytics for your site
A DLNA, UPnP and HTTP(S) Media Server.
Complete IT infrastructure monitoring made simple
Secure peer-to-peer chat that is serverless, decentralized, and ephemeral
Community effort to maintain and improve Jedi Academy (SP & MP) + Jedi Outcast (SP only) released by Raven Software
Multicast RTP/RTSP to Unicast HTTP stream converter, with built-in web player, status dashboard, fast channel change support, and more!
Money Manager Ex is an easy to use, money management application built with wxWidgets
Complete infrastructure monitoring with 25+ years of expertise
Share files with your clients, from your own server. Free, open source (GPLv2), self-hosted — or use ProjectSend Cloud, the official hosted version run by the s
:snowflake: Visual editor for open FPGA boards
A free and open-source MMORPG server emulator written in C++
0x.Tools: X-Ray vision for Linux systems
MODX Revolution - Content Management Framework
A free, open-source Chrome extension - no ads, no tracking. Based on The Great Suspender, cleaned up and actively maintained.
Lightweight library for scraping web-sites with LLMs
Simple and fast databaseless PHP blogging platform, and Flat-File CMS
A self-hosted homelab dashboard with an optional built-in reverse proxy that makes stubborn apps work in iframes
The TYPO3 Core - Enterprise Content Management System. Synchronized mirror of https://review.typo3.org/q/project:Packages/TYPO3.CMS
Request Tracker, an enterprise-grade issue tracking system
IPTV工具箱, Docker🐳部署,支持EPG管理、直播源管理、台标管理,兼容DIYP/百川、超级直播及xmltv格式。
FOSSology is an open source license compliance software system and toolkit. As a toolkit you can run license, copyright and export control scans from the comma
A flexible, elegant, fast and easy-to-use content management system written in PHP.
Dradis Framework: Collaboration and reporting for IT Security teams
DavMail POP/IMAP/SMTP/CalDAV/CardDAV/LDAP Exchange and Office 365 Gateway - Synced with main subversion repository at
Fast, minimal VPN built on modern cryptography
Stendhal is a fun friendly and free multiplayer online adventure game with an old school feel.
The All-in-One System Profiling and Fault Detection Tool for Linux & Android
Canary Server 15.25 for OpenTibia community.
Browser extension: counts lines of code on GitHub
RosarioSIS Student Information System for school management.
Lightway Core is a modern VPN protocol by ExpressVPN, to deliver a VPN experience that’s faster, more secure, and more reliable.
Pen Test Report Generation and Assessment Collaboration
Plugins for Wazuh Dashboard
The Dogtag Certificate System is an enterprise-class Certificate Authority (CA) which supports all aspects of certificate lifecycle management, including key ar
Privacy-focused note-taking made simple and fast
Frequently asked questions
What can I do with GPL-2.0-licensed code?
You can use, modify and redistribute it.
What does the GPL-2.0 licence require?
You must release derivatives under GPL-2.0 and supply the source.
What does GPL-2.0 prohibit?
You cannot combine it with code you distribute under incompatible terms. GPL-2.0 is not the only option — GPL-3.0, which adds anti-tivoisation and patent terms is the nearest licence in common use.
Which open source projects use the GPL-2.0 licence?
70 projects in this registry use GPL-2.0, with 493,219 GitHub stars between them across 17 languages. The most-adopted is OBS Studio with 78,841 stars, and 60 of the 70 received a commit in the last 90 days.