freeok/so-novel vs jakewharton/butterknife
jakewharton/butterknife shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, butterknife shows healthier maintenance signals than so-novel. butterknife rates Healthy overall while so-novel rates Mixed. so-novel last saw a commit 2 months ago with 3+ active contributors, while butterknife last saw a commit 2 years ago with 17+ active contributors. so-novel is AGPL-3.0-licensed while butterknife is Apache-2.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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freeok/so-novel →
Single-maintainer risk — review before adopting
copyleft license (AGPL-3.0) — review compatibility; top contributor handles 98% of recent commits
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.
- ⚠Small team — 3 contributors active in recent commits
- ⚠Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 98% of recent commits
- ⚠AGPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ✓Last commit 2w ago
- ✓3 active contributors
- ✓AGPL-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
jakewharton/butterknife →
Healthy across all four use cases
Permissive license, no critical CVEs, actively maintained — safe to depend on.
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.
- ⚠Stale — last commit 3y ago
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 75% of recent commits
- ✓17 active contributors
- ✓Apache-2.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| so-novel | butterknife | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 6,704 | 25,377 |
| Last commit | 2mo ago | 2y ago |
| License | AGPL-3.0 | Apache-2.0 |
| Open issues | 20 | 119 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 39% | 57% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Healthy signals |
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