The Gazelle source code is publicly available to anyone who wishes to use it, under an in-house, modified, derivative of the GPL. The most recent source code of Gazelle and Ocelot is always available via Git:
$ git clone git://git.what.cd/gazelle/Note that Ocelot's source code is provided as a tarball in Gazelle's Git repository.
There is a separate site dedicated to Gazelle: gazelle/, but it is quite out-of-date and is read-only.
Finally, we'd like to put in a word about security. There is a reason why we are the only high profile tracker to release their code in years—releasing their code is amongst the most dangerous things that any site can do, and the number of enemies that we have accrued during our five years of existence increases the risk only more. We recognize the dangers involved, and we have chosen to release the code nonetheless, because we believe that the BitTorrent community as such is more important than any individual site that's a part of it. We believe that the pros will outweigh the cons, and we hope that people will use the code for constructive purposes, rather than childish hacking attempts. If our hopes prove to be misguided and people take advantage of our generosity to exploit vulnerabilities in the codebase, we will remove the public Git repository and stop offering the code.
If you find a bug, please report it to a What.CD Developer in #gazelle on irc.what-network.net. The same channel can be used for asking questions and chatting about the codebase.
We hope to see a bunch of little baby Gazelles popping up soon. Good luck.
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