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classicoldsong/apollo vs freecad/freecad

freecad/freecad shows stronger signals overall

As of June 2026, freecad shows healthier maintenance signals than apollo. freecad rates Healthy overall while apollo rates Mixed. apollo last saw a commit 2 months ago with 20+ active contributors, while freecad last saw a commit 1 month ago with 44+ active contributors. apollo is GPL-3.0-licensed while freecad is LGPL-2.1-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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classicoldsong/apollo

Mixed

Mixed signals — read the receipts

ConcernsDependency

copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility; no CI workflows detected

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.

  • GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
  • No CI workflows detected
  • Last commit 5w ago
  • 20 active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 26% of recent commits)
  • GPL-3.0 licensed
  • 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

freecad/freecad

Healthy

Healthy across the board

ConcernsDependency

copyleft license (LGPL-2.1) — review compatibility

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.

  • LGPL-2.1 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
  • Last commit today
  • 44+ active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 10% of recent commits)
  • LGPL-2.1 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

apollofreecad
Stars9,34130,806
Last commit2mo ago1mo ago
LicenseGPL-3.0LGPL-2.1
Open issues2923,927
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage38%100%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineMixed signalsHealthy signals

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