ebookfoundation/free-programming-books vs run-llama/llama_index
run-llama/llama_index shows stronger signals overall
As of September 2026, llama_index shows healthier maintenance signals than free-programming-books. llama_index rates Healthy overall while free-programming-books rates Mixed. free-programming-books was committed to 4 days ago with 82+ active contributors, while llama_index was committed to 4 weeks ago with 63+ active contributors. free-programming-books is CC-BY-4.0-licensed while llama_index 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
run-llama/llama_index
Healthy across all four use cases
No blocking maintenance, license, or known-CVE signals were found; still verify the package version and fit.
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
No blocking repository-level signals were found; deployment review is still required.
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓63+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 5% of recent commits)
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| free-programming-books | llama_index | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 396,718 | 51,739 |
| Last commit | 4d ago | 29d ago |
| License | CC-BY-4.0 | MIT |
| Open issues | 82 | 629 |
| Has tests | No | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 0% | 75% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | C | — |
| Cycles | 0 | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Healthy signals |
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