chinabugotech/hutool vs ikarus23/mifareclassictool
Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health
As of June 2026, hutool and mifareclassictool both show mixed maintenance signals. hutool was committed to 3 weeks ago with 16+ active contributors, while mifareclassictool last saw a commit 1 month ago with 16+ active contributors. hutool is MulanPSL-2.0-licensed while mifareclassictool 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)
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.
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 59% of recent commits
- ⚠Non-standard license (MulanPSL-2.0) — review terms
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit 3d ago
- ✓16 active contributors
- ✓MulanPSL-2.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → Mixed if: clarify license terms
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard
ikarus23/mifareclassictool →
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.
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 78% of recent commits
- ⚠GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ✓Last commit 1w ago
- ✓16 active contributors
- ✓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
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| hutool | mifareclassictool | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 30,287 | 5,964 |
| Last commit | 24d ago | 1mo ago |
| License | MulanPSL-2.0 | GPL-3.0 |
| Open issues | 3 | 33 |
| Has tests | ✓ | — |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 16% | 0% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | C | — |
| Cycles | 0 | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Mixed signals |
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