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greenrobot/eventbus vs kevin-wayne/algs4

greenrobot/eventbus shows stronger signals overall

As of June 2026, eventbus shows healthier maintenance signals than algs4. eventbus rates Healthy overall while algs4 rates Mixed. eventbus last saw a commit 2 years ago with 5+ active contributors, while algs4 last saw a commit 5 months ago with 3+ active contributors. eventbus is Apache-2.0-licensed while algs4 is GPL-3.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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greenrobot/eventbus

Healthy

Healthy across all four use cases

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.

  • Stale — last commit 2y ago
  • Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 81% of recent commits
  • 5 active contributors
  • Apache-2.0 licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

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

kevin-wayne/algs4

Mixed

Slowing — last commit 4mo ago

ConcernsDependency

copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility; top contributor handles 98% of recent commits…

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.

  • Slowing — last commit 4mo ago
  • Small team — 3 contributors active in recent commits
  • Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 98% of recent commits
  • GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
  • No CI workflows detected
  • No test directory detected
  • Last commit 4mo ago
  • 3 active contributors
  • GPL-3.0 licensed

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

Signal-by-signal breakdown

eventbusalgs4
Stars24,7287,523
Last commit2y ago5mo ago
LicenseApache-2.0GPL-3.0
Open issues14725
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage14%0%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsMixed signals

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