Updated August 2026
    Actively maintained
    Real momentum
    4.9k

    Radicale: Maintenance, Licence and Alternatives

    Simple calendar and contact server with extremely low administrative overhead.

    TL;DR • Radicale • as of August 2026

    Radicale is an open-source calendar & contacts project, with 4.9k GitHub stars and a health score of 100/100. It committed 1371 times in the last twelve months across 12 of those months, and its status is actively maintained. Licence: GPL-3.0. It has real momentum, so treat it as a live competitor rather than a stale repository.

    4.9k
    GitHub stars
    100/100
    Health score
    1371
    Commits (12 mo)
    12/12
    Active months

    Maintenance health

    Status Actively maintained — Committed within the last 45 days.
    Last commit 2026-08-08
    Days since last commit 9
    Commits, last 3 months 164
    Commits, last 12 months 1371
    Months with activity 12 of 12
    Last release 2026-08-06
    Archived No
    Licence GPL-3.0
    Category Calendar & Contacts

    Health score combines commit recency, twelve-month commit volume, months with activity, release recency and archive state. Metadata refreshed August 2026.

    What the licence lets you do

    GPL-3.0

    Copyleft (GPL, AGPL, MPL): derivative work must stay open. AGPL also covers software offered over a network, which blocks most closed SaaS wrappers.

    This matters most when you plan to sell a hosted version. A permissive licence means anyone — including a competitor with more capital — can do the same, so your defensibility has to come from distribution, support or data, not from the code.

    What Radicale means for your idea

    Contested · 40/100
    Calendar & Contacts category →

    Radicale is shipping code consistently, so a buyer comparing your product will find a maintained free option. Price and position against the total cost of self-hosting it, not against the paid incumbent's list price.

    Winnable, but differentiation is not optional. Pick one underserved segment and be visibly better for it rather than competing feature-for-feature with a free tool.

    Radicale: common questions

    Is Radicale still maintained in 2026?

    Actively maintained. Radicale recorded 1371 commits over the last twelve months, with activity in 12 of those months and 164 commits in the last quarter. Last commit: 2026-08-08. Last release: 2026-08-06. Committed within the last 45 days.

    Can I use Radicale commercially?

    Radicale is published under GPL-3.0. Copyleft (GPL, AGPL, MPL): derivative work must stay open. AGPL also covers software offered over a network, which blocks most closed SaaS wrappers.

    How crowded is the Calendar & Contacts category?

    8 open-source implementations, 7 of them actively maintained, led by Radicale at 4.9k stars. Saturation score 40/100 — Contested. Several maintained alternatives exist, but no one owns the category.

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