jakewharton/butterknife vs jboss-javassist/javassist
jakewharton/butterknife shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, butterknife shows healthier maintenance signals than javassist. butterknife rates Healthy overall while javassist rates Mixed. butterknife last saw a commit 2 years ago with 17+ active contributors, while javassist was committed to 6 days ago with 17+ active contributors. butterknife is Apache-2.0-licensed while javassist is Other-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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jakewharton/butterknife →
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.
- ⚠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
jboss-javassist/javassist →
Mixed signals — read the receipts
non-standard license (Other)
Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10; Scorecard "Token-Permissions" is 0/10
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 69% of recent commits
- ⚠Non-standard license (Other) — review terms
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit 5d ago
- ✓17 active contributors
- ✓Other licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → Mixed if: clarify license terms
- →Deploy as-is Mixed → Healthy if: bring "Branch-Protection" to ≥3/10 (see scorecard report)
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| butterknife | javassist | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 25,377 | 4,232 |
| Last commit | 2y ago | 6d ago |
| License | Apache-2.0 | Other |
| Open issues | 119 | 254 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 57% | 100% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | C |
| Cycles | — | 0 |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Mixed signals |
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