Self-hosted software under BSD-2-Clause

11 of the projects we track are released under the BSD 2-clause "Simplified" (licence text). 2 of them are currently rated healthy or better.

Licence choice matters for self-hosting: copyleft licences such as AGPL-3.0 require you to publish modifications you expose over a network, while permissive ones such as MIT and Apache-2.0 do not. This page is a catalogue, not legal advice.

NGINX
Healthy · 75

HTTP and reverse proxy server, mail proxy server, and generic TCP/UDP proxy server.

★ 32k C, deb
Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)
Healthy · 69

High performance routing engine designed to run on OpenStreetMap data and offering an HTTP API, C++ library interface, and Nodejs wrapper.

★ 8.1k C++ v26.9.0
Redash
Steady · 67

Connect and query your data sources, build dashboards to visualize data and share them with your company.

★ 29k Docker v26.9.0
TileServer GL
Steady · 66

Vector and raster maps with GL styles. Server side rendering by Mapbox GL Native. Map tile server for Mapbox GL JS, Android, iOS, Leaflet, OpenLayers, GIS via WMTS, etc.

★ 2.9k Nodejs, Docker v5.7.0-pre.1
Pingvin Share X
Steady · 60

File sharing platform with support for logins, reverse shares, share expiry, S3 Buckets, advanced authentication, ClamAV for security scans and more (fork of Pingvin Share).

★ 462 Docker, Nodejs v2.0.0-beta.2
Baby Buddy
Slowing · 48

Helps caregivers track baby sleep, feedings, diaper changes, and tummy time.

★ 2.9k Python v2.11.0
Enigma 1/2 BBS
Slowing · 36

Enigma 1/2 is a modern, multi-platform BBS engine with unlimited "callers" and legacy DOS door game support.

★ 668 Shell, Docker
PsiTransfer
Slowing · 36

Simple file sharing solution with robust up-/download-resume and password protection.

★ 2k Nodejs v2.4.4
Nullboard
At risk · 14

Single-page minimalist kanban board; compact, highly readable and quick to use.

★ 4.1k Javascript
OpenSSH SFTP server
Unrated

Secure File Transfer Program.

C, deb
Vinyl Cache
Unrated

Web application accelerator/caching HTTP reverse proxy (formerly Varnish).

Go, deb