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barry-ran/qtscrcpy vs nixos/nix

Both showing Healthy signals — pick on fit, not health

As of June 2026, qtscrcpy and nix both show healthy maintenance signals. qtscrcpy last saw a commit 2 months ago with 15+ active contributors, while nix last saw a commit 1 month ago with 11+ active contributors. qtscrcpy is Apache-2.0-licensed while nix is LGPL-2.1-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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barry-ran/qtscrcpy

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 5w ago
  • 15 active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 47% of recent commits)
  • Apache-2.0 licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

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

nixos/nix

Healthy

Healthy across the board

ConcernsDependency

copyleft license (LGPL-2.1) — review compatibility

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.

  • LGPL-2.1 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
  • Last commit 1d ago
  • 11 active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 39% of recent commits)
  • LGPL-2.1 licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

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

qtscrcpynix
Stars29,41916,817
Last commit2mo ago1mo ago
LicenseApache-2.0LGPL-2.1
Open issues6024,040
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage5%80%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsHealthy signals

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