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astral-sh/ruff vs btjawa/bilitools

astral-sh/ruff shows stronger signals overall

As of June 2026, ruff shows healthier maintenance signals than bilitools. ruff rates Healthy overall while bilitools rates Mixed. ruff was committed to today with 21+ active contributors, while bilitools last saw a commit 2 months ago with 2+ active contributors. ruff is MIT-licensed while bilitools is GPL-3.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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astral-sh/ruff

Healthy

Healthy across the board

HealthyDependency

Permissive license, no critical CVEs, actively maintained — safe to depend on.

HealthyFork & modify

Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

HealthyDeploy as-is

No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.

  • Last commit today
  • 21+ active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 35% of recent commits)
  • MIT licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard

btjawa/bilitools

Mixed

Single-maintainer risk — review before adopting

ConcernsDependency

copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility; top contributor handles 96% of recent commits…

HealthyFork & modify

Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

HealthyDeploy as-is

No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.

  • Small team — 2 contributors active in recent commits
  • Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 96% of recent commits
  • GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
  • No test directory detected
  • Last commit 4w ago
  • 2 active contributors
  • GPL-3.0 licensed
  • CI configured

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency ConcernsMixed if: relicense under MIT/Apache-2.0 (rare for established libs)

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests

Signal-by-signal breakdown

ruffbilitools
Stars48,2495,070
Last committoday2mo ago
LicenseMITGPL-3.0
Open issues2,03638
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage100%0%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsMixed signals

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