Code hosting
Radicle privacy rating
Open source peer-to-peer code collaboration stack built on Git, where repositories, issues and patches are replicated between nodes and signed with cryptographic identities, with no central server.
Summary
Radicle scores 80 out of 100 (grade B) on the code hosting criteria. It meets 3 of 4 criteria: open source, no trackers or telemetry and no ads or data sales. It does not meet independent audit.
Score 80 out of 100. How scoring works
Criteria
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Yes
Open source Weight 3 of 3
Is all the source code needed to run the product public?
MIT or Apache-2.0.
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Yes
No trackers or telemetry Weight 3 of 3
Are the website and apps free of third-party trackers, with any analytics anonymous and any telemetry off by default?
No third-party trackers, and the software has no telemetry. The radicle.dev website's Plausible analytics are cookieless and aggregate-only.
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Yes
No ads or data sales Weight 2 of 3
Is the product funded without advertising, ad targeting or selling user data?
Funded by grants from Radworks, with no ads.
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No
Independent audit Weight 2 of 3
Has an independent security or privacy audit been published within the last three years?
No independent audit is published.