beyonddimension/steamtools vs felixse/fluentterminal
Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health
As of September 2026, steamtools and fluentterminal both show mixed maintenance signals. steamtools was committed to 2 weeks ago with 8+ active contributors, while fluentterminal last saw a commit 8 months ago with 15+ 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
felixse/fluentterminal
Slowing — last commit 5mo ago
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.
dependency CVE scan unavailable
- ⚠Slowing — last commit 5mo ago
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 64% of recent commits
- ⚠GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ✓Last commit 5mo ago
- ✓15 active contributors
- ✓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
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| steamtools | fluentterminal | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 26,754 | 9,598 |
| Last commit | 15d ago | 8mo ago |
| License | GPL-3.0 | GPL-3.0 |
| Open issues | 1,161 | 240 |
| Has tests | No | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 0% | 1% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | C | — |
| Cycles | 0 | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Mixed signals |
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