foxcpp/maddy vs gorilla/websocket
Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health
As of June 2026, maddy and websocket both show mixed maintenance signals. maddy last saw a commit 1 month ago with 17+ active contributors, while websocket last saw a commit 1 year ago with 47+ active contributors. maddy is GPL-3.0-licensed while websocket is BSD-2-Clause-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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foxcpp/maddy →
Mixed signals — read the receipts
copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility
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.
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 75% of recent commits
- ⚠GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ✓Last commit 1w ago
- ✓17 active contributors
- ✓GPL-3.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → Mixed if: relicense under MIT/Apache-2.0 (rare for established libs)
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
gorilla/websocket →
Stale — last commit 1y ago
last commit was 1y ago; no tests detected…
Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
last commit was 1y ago; no CI workflows detected
- ⚠Stale — last commit 1y ago
- ⚠No CI workflows detected
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ✓47+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 9% of recent commits)
- ✓BSD-2-Clause licensed
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Mixed → Healthy if: 1 commit in the last 365 days; add a test suite
- →Deploy as-is Mixed → Healthy 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
| maddy | websocket | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 5,953 | 24,688 |
| Last commit | 1mo ago | 1y ago |
| License | GPL-3.0 | BSD-2-Clause |
| Open issues | 128 | 73 |
| Has tests | ✓ | — |
| Has CI | ✓ | — |
| Test coverage | 18% | 0% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Mixed signals |
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