Magento2
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Magento2 is an open-source e-commerce project on GitHub under the OSL-3.0 license (strong copyleft), with 12k stars. It is built with Php-src and V8. Its last push was 11 days ago.
- Stars
- 12k
- License
- OSL-3.0
- Activity
- Active
- Latest release
- 2.4.10-alpha1
Judgement
- What it is
- Complete system
- What it does
- Magento Open Source, Adobe's PHP ecommerce platform for large catalogues, multi-store and extensive customisation through modules.
- Adopt it when
- A mid-size or large merchant needs deep customisation and has access to experienced Magento developers and hosting.
- Watch out
- Heavy to host and expensive to develop and upgrade; Adobe steers advanced features to paid Adobe Commerce.
- Ready for
- Production-ready
- Runs as
- Self-hosted server
- Built with
- PHP, MySQL, Elasticsearch and Redis
- How established
- Established: started 15 years ago, latest release 2.4.10-alpha1.
- What the license allows
- Use inside your business is unrestricted, but anything you distribute that includes it must be released under the same license.
Judged on 2026-11-03 from the project's README and GitHub data. The license and age lines are worked out directly.
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