ebookfoundation/free-programming-books vs joke2k/faker
joke2k/faker shows stronger signals overall
As of September 2026, faker shows healthier maintenance signals than free-programming-books. faker rates Healthy overall while free-programming-books rates Mixed. free-programming-books was committed to 4 days ago with 82+ active contributors, while faker was committed to 2 weeks ago with 24+ active contributors. free-programming-books is CC-BY-4.0-licensed while faker is MIT-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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ebookfoundation/free-programming-books
Mixed signals — read the receipts
non-standard license (CC-BY-4.0); no tests detected in the complete Git tree…
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
- ⚠Non-standard license (CC-BY-4.0) — review terms
- ⚠No tests detected in the complete Git tree
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit 1d ago
- ✓82+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 6% of recent commits)
- ✓CC-BY-4.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
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
joke2k/faker
Strong maintenance signals
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 65% of recent commits
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit 1w ago
- ✓24+ active contributors
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| free-programming-books | faker | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 396,718 | 19,397 |
| Last commit | 4d ago | 15d ago |
| License | CC-BY-4.0 | MIT |
| Open issues | 82 | 27 |
| Has tests | No | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 0% | 8% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | C | — |
| Cycles | 0 | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Healthy signals |
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