instructure/canvas-lms vs lewagon/setup
instructure/canvas-lms shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, canvas-lms shows healthier maintenance signals than setup. canvas-lms rates Healthy overall while setup rates Mixed. canvas-lms last saw a commit 1 month ago with 50+ active contributors, while setup last saw a commit 2 months ago with 13+ active contributors. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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instructure/canvas-lms →
Healthy across the board
copyleft license (AGPL-3.0) — review compatibility
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.
- ⚠AGPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ✓Last commit 1w ago
- ✓50+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 13% of recent commits)
- ✓AGPL-3.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → 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
lewagon/setup →
Missing license — unclear to depend on
no license — legally unclear; no tests detected
no license — can't legally use code; no tests detected
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
no license — can't legally use code
- ⚠No license — legally unclear to depend on
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ✓Last commit 3w ago
- ✓13 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 46% of recent commits)
- ✓CI configured
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → Mixed if: publish a permissive license (MIT, Apache-2.0, etc.)
- →Fork & modify Concerns → Mixed if: add a LICENSE file
- →Deploy as-is Concerns → Mixed if: add a LICENSE file
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| canvas-lms | setup | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 6,619 | 19,599 |
| Last commit | 1mo ago | 2mo ago |
| License | AGPL-3.0 | — |
| Open issues | 453 | 1 |
| Has tests | ✓ | — |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 1% | 0% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Mixed signals |
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