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ebookfoundation/free-programming-books vs sjmoran/low-light-video-enhancement

Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health

As of September 2026, free-programming-books and low-light-video-enhancement both show mixed maintenance signals. free-programming-books was committed to 4 days ago with 82+ active contributors, while low-light-video-enhancement last saw a commit 4 years ago with 2+ active contributors. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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ebookfoundation/free-programming-books

Mixed

Mixed signals — read the receipts

ConcernsDependency

non-standard license (CC-BY-4.0); no tests detected in the complete Git tree…

HealthyFork & modify

No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

MixedDeploy as-is

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

sjmoran/low-light-video-enhancement

Mixed

Stale — last commit 5y ago

ConcernsDependency

last commit was 5y ago; top contributor handles 97% of recent commits…

MixedFork & modify

no tests detected in the complete Git tree; no CI workflows detected…

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

MixedDeploy as-is

last commit was 5y ago; no CI workflows detected…

  • Stale — last commit 5y ago
  • Small team — 2 contributors active in recent commits
  • Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 97% of recent commits
  • No CI workflows detected
  • No tests detected in the complete Git tree
  • Scorecard: marked unmaintained (0/10)
  • 2 moderate-severity advisories on direct dependencies
  • 2 active contributors

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency Concerns to Mixed if: 1 commit in the last 365 days
  • Fork & modify Mixed to Healthy if: add a test suite
  • Deploy as-is Mixed to Healthy if: 1 commit in the last 180 days

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-bookslow-light-video-enhancement
Stars396,71834
Last commit4d ago4y ago
LicenseCC-BY-4.0Unknown
Open issues820
Has testsNoNo
Has CINo
Test coverage0%0%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEs0 critical · 0 high · 2 moderate · 0 low
Architecture gradeC
Cycles0
Bottom-lineMixed signalsMixed signals

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