When comparing Meat! vs Kallithea, the Slant community recommends Kallithea for most people. In the question“What are the best self-hosted web-based Git repository managers?” Kallithea is ranked 11th while Meat! is ranked 19th. The most important reason people chose Kallithea is:
GPLv3
Specs
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Pros
Pro Nice material design
The design is minimalistic and based on today's standarts on material design. It uses colors which are pleasing to the eye and displays the information in an ordered way. The main view shows the latest activity sorted in a chronological order, displaying commits and pushes.
Every repo has it's own view, on the top there's the repo's name and a dropdown which displays the current branch with the ability to change to another branch or to create a new one.
On the right there's a vertical menu with links to add a new file, show the history or to download the current repository.
Pro Deployment is very easy
Deploying Meat! is very easy and it can be done in multiple platforms by using Virtual Machines such as Mware Fusion, VirtualBox, VM Workstation & Payer, or vSphere.
Pro Free and Open Source
GPLv3
Pro Built-in push/pull server
Pro Code review support
Pro Multiple version control systems
Git/Mercurial
Pro LDAP integration
Pro Online editor
Pro Issue tracking
Cons
Con Not open source with a license prone to errors
Although the self-hosted version is completely free and unlimited, it's not open source. It's proprietary license is filled with errors and it's open to a lot of interpretations in the future.
For example:
IF YOU DO NOT OWN THE SOFTWARE, THEN DO NOT DOWNLOAD,
INSTALL, COPY OR USE THE SOFTWARE.
Should be:
You further acknowledge that title and full ownership
rights to the Software will remain the exclusive property
of BigHit and/or its suppliers,