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halo-dev/halo vs hmcl-dev/hmcl

Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health

As of September 2026, halo and hmcl both show mixed maintenance signals. halo was committed to 2 weeks ago with 5+ active contributors, while hmcl last saw a commit 4 months ago with 15+ active contributors. Both use the GPL-3.0 license. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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halo-dev/halo

Mixed

Mixed signals — read the receipts

ConcernsDependency

copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility; dependency CVE scan unavailable

HealthyFork & modify

No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

MixedDeploy as-is

Scorecard "Token-Permissions" is 0/10; dependency CVE scan unavailable

  • Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 60% of recent commits
  • GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
  • Last commit today
  • 5 active contributors
  • GPL-3.0 licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency Concerns to 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, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard

hmcl-dev/hmcl

Mixed

Evidence incomplete — review before adopting

ConcernsDependency

copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility; test evidence incomplete…

HealthyFork & modify

No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

MixedDeploy as-is

dependency CVE scan unavailable

  • GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
  • Could not verify tests from the available repository evidence
  • Last commit today
  • 15 active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 41% of recent commits)
  • GPL-3.0 licensed
  • CI configured

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency Concerns to 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

halohmcl
Stars39,6499,207
Last commit15d ago4mo ago
LicenseGPL-3.0GPL-3.0
Open issues116393
Has testsUnknown
Has CI
Test coverage31%0%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture gradeC
Cycles0
Bottom-lineMixed signalsMixed signals

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