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binarywang/wxjava vs freeok/so-novel

binarywang/wxjava shows stronger signals overall

As of June 2026, wxjava shows healthier maintenance signals than so-novel. wxjava rates Healthy overall while so-novel rates Mixed. wxjava last saw a commit 1 month ago with 20+ active contributors, while so-novel last saw a commit 2 months ago with 3+ active contributors. wxjava is Apache-2.0-licensed while so-novel is AGPL-3.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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binarywang/wxjava

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.

  • Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 61% of recent commits
  • Last commit 1d ago
  • 20 active contributors
  • Apache-2.0 licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

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

freeok/so-novel

Mixed

Single-maintainer risk — review before adopting

ConcernsDependency

copyleft license (AGPL-3.0) — review compatibility; top contributor handles 98% of recent commits

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.

  • Small team — 3 contributors active in recent commits
  • Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 98% of recent commits
  • AGPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
  • Last commit 2w ago
  • 3 active contributors
  • AGPL-3.0 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

wxjavaso-novel
Stars32,7676,704
Last commit1mo ago2mo ago
LicenseApache-2.0AGPL-3.0
Open issues2120
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage52%39%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsMixed signals

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