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foxcpp/maddy vs iawia002/lux

iawia002/lux shows stronger signals overall

As of June 2026, lux shows healthier maintenance signals than maddy. lux rates Healthy overall while maddy rates Mixed. maddy last saw a commit 1 month ago with 17+ active contributors, while lux last saw a commit 3 months ago with 30+ active contributors. maddy is GPL-3.0-licensed while lux is MIT-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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foxcpp/maddy

Mixed

Mixed signals — read the receipts

ConcernsDependency

copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility

HealthyFork & modify

Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

HealthyDeploy as-is

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 ConcernsMixed if: relicense under MIT/Apache-2.0 (rare for established libs)

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests

iawia002/lux

Healthy

Healthy across the board

HealthyDependency

Permissive license, no critical CVEs, actively maintained — safe to depend on.

HealthyFork & modify

Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

HealthyDeploy as-is

No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.

  • Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 56% of recent commits
  • Last commit 6w ago
  • 30+ active contributors
  • MIT licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests

Signal-by-signal breakdown

maddylux
Stars5,95331,326
Last commit1mo ago3mo ago
LicenseGPL-3.0MIT
Open issues128539
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage18%2%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineMixed signalsHealthy signals

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