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guardianproject/haven vs jakewharton/butterknife

jakewharton/butterknife shows stronger signals overall

As of June 2026, butterknife shows healthier maintenance signals than haven. butterknife rates Healthy overall while haven rates Mixed. haven last saw a commit 3 years ago with 30+ active contributors, while butterknife last saw a commit 2 years ago with 17+ active contributors. haven is GPL-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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guardianproject/haven

Mixed

Stale — last commit 4y ago

ConcernsDependency

copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility; last commit was 4y ago…

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 4y ago
  • GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
  • No test directory detected
  • 30+ active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 20% of recent commits)
  • GPL-3.0 licensed
  • CI configured

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

jakewharton/butterknife

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 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

havenbutterknife
Stars6,78825,377
Last commit3y ago2y ago
LicenseGPL-3.0Apache-2.0
Open issues145119
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage0%57%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineMixed signalsHealthy signals

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