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hashicorp/vault vs screego/server

Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health

As of June 2026, vault and server both show mixed maintenance signals. vault was committed to 1 day ago with 2+ active contributors, while server last saw a commit 2 months ago with 7+ active contributors. vault is Other-licensed while server is GPL-3.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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hashicorp/vault

Mixed

Single-maintainer risk — review before adopting

ConcernsDependency

non-standard license (Other); top contributor handles 99% 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.

  • Small team — 2 contributors active in recent commits
  • Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 99% of recent commits
  • Non-standard license (Other) — review terms
  • 2 moderate-severity advisories on direct dependencies
  • Last commit today
  • 2 active contributors
  • Other licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency ConcernsMixed if: clarify license terms

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard

screego/server

Mixed

Single-maintainer risk — review before adopting

ConcernsDependency

copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility; top contributor handles 94% 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.

  • Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 94% of recent commits
  • GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
  • No test directory detected
  • Last commit 2w ago
  • 7 active contributors
  • 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

Signal-by-signal breakdown

vaultserver
Stars35,83710,364
Last commit1d ago2mo ago
LicenseOtherGPL-3.0
Open issues1,51413
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage9%0%
Dependency CVEs0 critical · 0 high · 2 moderate · 0 lowNo CVEs
Architecture gradeC
Cycles0
Bottom-lineMixed signalsMixed signals

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