homebrew/homebrew-cask vs linuxbrew/legacy-linuxbrew
homebrew/homebrew-cask shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, homebrew-cask shows healthier maintenance signals than legacy-linuxbrew. homebrew-cask rates Healthy overall while legacy-linuxbrew rates Mixed. homebrew-cask last saw a commit 1 month ago with 4+ active contributors, while legacy-linuxbrew last saw a commit 8 years ago with 34+ active contributors. homebrew-cask is BSD-2-Clause-licensed while legacy-linuxbrew is Other-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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homebrew/homebrew-cask →
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.
- ⚠Small team — 4 contributors active in recent commits
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 53% of recent commits
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓4 active contributors
- ✓BSD-2-Clause licensed
- ✓CI configured
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
linuxbrew/legacy-linuxbrew →
Stale — last commit 9y ago
non-standard license (Other); last commit was 9y ago…
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 9y ago
- ⚠Non-standard license (Other) — review terms
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ✓34+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 26% of recent commits)
- ✓Other licensed
- ✓CI configured
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → Mixed if: clarify license terms
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| homebrew-cask | legacy-linuxbrew | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 22,008 | 2,214 |
| Last commit | 1mo ago | 8y ago |
| License | BSD-2-Clause | Other |
| Open issues | 32 | 0 |
| Has tests | — | — |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 0% | 0% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Mixed signals |
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