beyonddimension/steamtools vs pcl-community/pcl-ce
pcl-community/pcl-ce shows stronger signals overall
As of September 2026, pcl-ce shows healthier maintenance signals than steamtools. pcl-ce rates Healthy overall while steamtools rates Mixed. steamtools was committed to 2 weeks ago with 8+ active contributors, while pcl-ce was committed to 4 weeks ago with 14+ active contributors. steamtools is GPL-3.0-licensed while pcl-ce is Apache-2.0-licensed. 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
pcl-community/pcl-ce
Strong maintenance signals
no tests detected in the complete Git tree; 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
- ⚠No tests detected in the complete Git tree
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit 3d ago
- ✓14 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 30% of recent commits)
- ✓Apache-2.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| steamtools | pcl-ce | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 26,754 | 4,218 |
| Last commit | 16d ago | 28d ago |
| License | GPL-3.0 | Apache-2.0 |
| Open issues | 1,161 | 211 |
| Has tests | No | No |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 0% | 0% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | C | C |
| Cycles | 0 | 0 |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Healthy signals |
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