caldis/mos vs signalapp/signal-ios
Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health
As of September 2026, mos and signal-ios both show mixed maintenance signals. mos was committed to 3 weeks ago with 9+ active contributors, while signal-ios last saw a commit 4 months ago with 10+ active contributors. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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caldis/mos
Single-maintainer risk — review before adopting
license evidence incomplete; dependency CVE scan unavailable
license evidence incomplete
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10; license evidence incomplete…
- ⚠Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 88% of recent commits
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit 3w ago
- ✓9 active contributors
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard
signalapp/signal-ios
Evidence incomplete — review before adopting
copyleft license (AGPL-3.0) — review compatibility; test evidence incomplete…
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
dependency CVE scan unavailable
- ⚠AGPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ⚠Could not verify tests from the available repository evidence
- ✓Last commit 2d ago
- ✓10 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 35% of recent commits)
- ✓AGPL-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
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| mos | signal-ios | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 21,344 | 12,058 |
| Last commit | 27d ago | 4mo ago |
| License | Unknown | AGPL-3.0 |
| Open issues | 403 | 127 |
| Has tests | ✓ | Unknown |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 14% | 0% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | C | — |
| Cycles | 0 | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Mixed signals |
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