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diaspora/diaspora vs linuxbrew/brew

Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health

As of June 2026, diaspora and brew both show mixed maintenance signals. diaspora last saw a commit 1 month ago with 3+ active contributors, while brew last saw a commit 7 years ago with 7+ active contributors. diaspora is AGPL-3.0-licensed while brew is BSD-2-Clause-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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diaspora/diaspora

Mixed

Mixed signals — read the receipts

ConcernsDependency

copyleft license (AGPL-3.0) — review compatibility; no tests 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.

  • Small team — 3 contributors active in recent commits
  • Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 63% of recent commits
  • AGPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
  • No test directory detected
  • Last commit 1w ago
  • 3 active contributors
  • AGPL-3.0 licensed
  • CI configured

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

linuxbrew/brew

Mixed

Stale — last commit 7y ago

MixedDependency

last commit was 7y ago; 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.

MixedDeploy as-is

last commit was 7y ago; no CI workflows detected

  • Stale — last commit 7y ago
  • Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 62% of recent commits
  • No CI workflows detected
  • 7 active contributors
  • BSD-2-Clause licensed
  • Tests present

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency MixedHealthy if: 1 commit in the last 365 days
  • Deploy as-is MixedHealthy if: 1 commit in the last 180 days

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests

Signal-by-signal breakdown

diasporabrew
Stars13,6542,654
Last commit1mo ago7y ago
LicenseAGPL-3.0BSD-2-Clause
Open issues4250
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage0%1%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineMixed signalsMixed signals

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