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astral-sh/ruff vs pythops/bluetui

astral-sh/ruff shows stronger signals overall

As of June 2026, ruff shows healthier maintenance signals than bluetui. ruff rates Healthy overall while bluetui rates Mixed. ruff was committed to today with 21+ active contributors, while bluetui last saw a commit 1 month ago with 24+ active contributors. ruff is MIT-licensed while bluetui 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

pythops/bluetui

Mixed

Mixed signals — read the receipts

ConcernsDependency

copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility; no tests detected

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.

  • GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
  • No test directory detected
  • Last commit 2d ago
  • 24+ active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 39% of recent commits)
  • 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

ruffbluetui
Stars48,2492,762
Last committoday1mo ago
LicenseMITGPL-3.0
Open issues2,03620
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage100%0%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsMixed signals

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