go-kit/kit vs gopeedlab/gopeed
go-kit/kit shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, kit shows healthier maintenance signals than gopeed. kit rates Healthy overall while gopeed rates Mixed. kit last saw a commit 1 year ago with 26+ active contributors, while gopeed last saw a commit 1 month ago with 21+ active contributors. kit is MIT-licensed while gopeed is GPL-3.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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go-kit/kit →
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 2y ago
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 51% of recent commits
- ✓26+ active contributors
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
gopeedlab/gopeed →
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 57% of recent commits
- ⚠GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ✓Last commit 2d ago
- ✓21+ 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
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| kit | gopeed | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 27,426 | 24,377 |
| Last commit | 1y ago | 1mo ago |
| License | MIT | GPL-3.0 |
| Open issues | 58 | 273 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 4% | 48% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Mixed signals |
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