chinabugotech/hutool vs hmcl-dev/hmcl
Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health
As of September 2026, hutool and hmcl both show mixed maintenance signals. hutool was committed to 1 week ago with 13+ active contributors, while hmcl last saw a commit 4 months ago with 15+ active contributors. hutool is MulanPSL-2.0-licensed while hmcl is GPL-3.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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chinabugotech/hutool
Mixed signals — read the receipts
non-standard license (MulanPSL-2.0); 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
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 57% of recent commits
- ⚠Non-standard license (MulanPSL-2.0) — review terms
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit 1d ago
- ✓13 active contributors
- ✓MulanPSL-2.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- •Use as dependency Concerns to Mixed if: clarify license terms
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard
hmcl-dev/hmcl
Evidence incomplete — review before adopting
copyleft license (GPL-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
- ⚠GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ⚠Could not verify tests from the available repository evidence
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓15 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 41% 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
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| hutool | hmcl | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 30,266 | 9,207 |
| Last commit | 13d ago | 4mo ago |
| License | MulanPSL-2.0 | GPL-3.0 |
| Open issues | 5 | 393 |
| Has tests | ✓ | Unknown |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 52% | 0% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | C | — |
| Cycles | 0 | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Mixed signals |
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