beyonddimension/steamtools vs wmjordan/pdfpatcher
Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health
As of June 2026, steamtools and pdfpatcher both show mixed maintenance signals. steamtools last saw a commit 3 months ago with 8+ active contributors, while pdfpatcher last saw a commit 4 months ago with 1+ active contributor. 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
Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.
- ⚠GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ✓Last commit 8w 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 → 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
wmjordan/pdfpatcher →
Missing license — unclear to depend on
no license — legally unclear; single-maintainer (no co-maintainers visible)…
no license — can't legally use code; no CI workflows detected
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
no license — can't legally use code; no CI workflows detected
- ⚠Solo or near-solo (1 contributor active in recent commits)
- ⚠No license — legally unclear to depend on
- ⚠No CI workflows detected
- ✓Last commit 2mo ago
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → Mixed if: publish a permissive license (MIT, Apache-2.0, etc.)
- →Fork & modify Concerns → Mixed if: add a LICENSE file
- →Deploy as-is Concerns → Mixed if: add a LICENSE file
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| steamtools | pdfpatcher | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 25,386 | 12,388 |
| Last commit | 3mo ago | 4mo ago |
| License | GPL-3.0 | — |
| Open issues | 1,120 | 104 |
| Has tests | — | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | — |
| Test coverage | 0% | 0% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Mixed signals |
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