beyonddimension/steamtools vs borntoberoot/networkmanager
borntoberoot/networkmanager shows stronger signals overall
As of September 2026, networkmanager shows healthier maintenance signals than steamtools. networkmanager rates Healthy overall while steamtools rates Mixed. steamtools was committed to 2 weeks ago with 8+ active contributors, while networkmanager last saw a commit 1 month ago with 6+ active contributors. Both use the GPL-3.0 license. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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beyonddimension/steamtools
Mixed signals — read the receipts
copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility; no tests detected in the complete Git tree…
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10; dependency CVE scan unavailable
- ⚠GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ⚠No tests detected in the complete Git tree
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit 6d ago
- ✓8 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 48% of recent commits)
- ✓GPL-3.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
What would improve this?
- •Use as dependency Concerns to Mixed if: relicense under MIT/Apache-2.0 (rare for established libs)
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard
borntoberoot/networkmanager
Strong maintenance signals
copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility; dependency CVE scan unavailable
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10; dependency CVE scan unavailable
- ⚠GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓6 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 37% of recent commits)
- ✓GPL-3.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- •Use as dependency Concerns to Mixed if: relicense under MIT/Apache-2.0 (rare for established libs)
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| steamtools | networkmanager | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 26,754 | 8,688 |
| Last commit | 16d ago | 1mo ago |
| License | GPL-3.0 | GPL-3.0 |
| Open issues | 1,161 | 35 |
| Has tests | No | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 0% | 1% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | C | C |
| Cycles | 0 | 0 |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Healthy signals |
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