coatisoftware/sourcetrail vs freecad/freecad
freecad/freecad shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, freecad shows healthier maintenance signals than sourcetrail. freecad rates Healthy overall while sourcetrail rates Mixed. sourcetrail last saw a commit 4 years ago with 19+ active contributors, while freecad last saw a commit 1 month ago with 44+ active contributors. sourcetrail 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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coatisoftware/sourcetrail →
Stale — last commit 4y ago
copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility; last commit was 4y ago
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.
- ⚠Stale — last commit 4y ago
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 52% of recent commits
- ⚠GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ✓19 active contributors
- ✓GPL-3.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
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
freecad/freecad →
Healthy across the board
copyleft license (LGPL-2.1) — review compatibility
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.
- ⚠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 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
| sourcetrail | freecad | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 16,448 | 30,806 |
| Last commit | 4y ago | 1mo ago |
| License | GPL-3.0 | LGPL-2.1 |
| Open issues | 355 | 3,927 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 100% | 100% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Healthy signals |
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