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Trac vs Redmine: catalog facts
Trac	Redmine
Free Free and open source under the BSD-3-Clause license.	Free Free and open source under the GNU GPL v2.
Self-hosted	Web, Self-hosted
Cross-links between tickets, commits and wiki pages Works with Subversion and Git	Issue tracking, Gantt charts, wiki and time tracking per project Integrates with Git, Subversion, Mercurial and more
Dated interface compared with newer forges No built-in code review or pull requests	Requires running a Ruby on Rails server Interface is more functional than modern
Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: BSD-3-Clause	License: GPL-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 September 24, 2026

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