freecad/freecad vs snowie2000/mactype
freecad/freecad shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, freecad shows healthier maintenance signals than mactype. freecad rates Healthy overall while mactype rates Mixed. freecad last saw a commit 1 month ago with 44+ active contributors, while mactype last saw a commit 1 month ago with 12+ active contributors. freecad is LGPL-2.1-licensed while mactype is GPL-3.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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freecad/freecad →
Healthy across the board
copyleft license (LGPL-2.1) — 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.
- ⚠LGPL-2.1 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓44+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 10% of recent commits)
- ✓LGPL-2.1 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
snowie2000/mactype →
Mixed signals — read the receipts
copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility; 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.
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 69% of recent commits
- ⚠GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ⚠No CI workflows detected
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ✓Last commit 1w ago
- ✓12 active contributors
- ✓GPL-3.0 licensed
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
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| freecad | mactype | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 30,806 | 11,722 |
| Last commit | 1mo ago | 1mo ago |
| License | LGPL-2.1 | GPL-3.0 |
| Open issues | 3,927 | 330 |
| Has tests | ✓ | — |
| Has CI | ✓ | — |
| Test coverage | 100% | 0% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Mixed signals |
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