ebookfoundation/free-programming-books vs sjmoran/low-light-video-enhancement
Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health
As of June 2026, free-programming-books and low-light-video-enhancement both show mixed maintenance signals. free-programming-books was committed to 2 days ago with 79+ active contributors, while low-light-video-enhancement last saw a commit 4 years ago with 2+ active contributors. free-programming-books is CC-BY-4.0-licensed while low-light-video-enhancement is Other-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
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.
- ⚠Non-standard license (CC-BY-4.0) — review terms
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit 1d ago
- ✓79+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 7% of recent commits)
- ✓CC-BY-4.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → Mixed if: clarify license terms
Maintenance signals: commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests + OpenSSF Scorecard
sjmoran/low-light-video-enhancement →
Stale — last commit 5y ago
non-standard license (Other); last commit was 5y ago…
no tests detected; no CI workflows detected…
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
last commit was 5y ago; Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10…
- ⚠Stale — last commit 5y ago
- ⚠Small team — 2 contributors active in recent commits
- ⚠Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 97% of recent commits
- ⚠Non-standard license (Other) — review terms
- ⚠No CI workflows detected
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ⚠Scorecard: marked unmaintained (0/10)
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓2 active contributors
- ✓Other licensed
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → Mixed if: clarify license terms; 1 commit in the last 365 days
- →Fork & modify Mixed → Healthy if: add a test suite
- →Deploy as-is Mixed → Healthy if: 1 commit in the last 180 days; bring "Branch-Protection" to ≥3/10 (see scorecard report)
Maintenance signals: commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests + OpenSSF Scorecard
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| free-programming-books | low-light-video-enhancement | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 390,434 | 34 |
| Last commit | 2d ago | 4y ago |
| License | CC-BY-4.0 | Other |
| Open issues | 79 | 0 |
| Has tests | — | — |
| Has CI | ✓ | — |
| Test coverage | 0% | 0% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | 0 critical · 0 high · 1 moderate · 0 low |
| Architecture grade | C | A |
| Cycles | 0 | 0 |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Mixed signals |
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