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Dotclear vs Antville: catalog facts
Dotclear	Antville
Free Free and open source under the GPL-2.0 licence.	Free Free and open source software.
Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Long history, in development since 2002 Self-hosted, so you keep control of the blog	Hosts many independent blogs on one installation Long-running project with a live public instance
Community and documentation are largely French-speaking Needs a PHP web server to run	Requires Helma Object Publisher and a relational database Uncommon technology stack compared with PHP blog engines
Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: GPL-2.0	License: Apache-2.0
Not stated if an account is needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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