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jakewharton/butterknife vs tronprotocol/java-tron

Both showing Healthy signals — pick on fit, not health

As of June 2026, butterknife and java-tron both show healthy maintenance signals. butterknife last saw a commit 2 years ago with 17+ active contributors, while java-tron last saw a commit 1 month ago with 19+ active contributors. butterknife is Apache-2.0-licensed while java-tron is LGPL-3.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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jakewharton/butterknife

Healthy

Healthy across all four use cases

HealthyDependency

Permissive license, no critical CVEs, actively maintained — safe to depend on.

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.

  • 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

tronprotocol/java-tron

Healthy

Healthy across the board

ConcernsDependency

copyleft license (LGPL-3.0) — review compatibility

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.

  • LGPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
  • Last commit today
  • 19 active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 17% of recent commits)
  • LGPL-3.0 licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

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

butterknifejava-tron
Stars25,3774,071
Last commit2y ago1mo ago
LicenseApache-2.0LGPL-3.0
Open issues11951
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage57%4%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsHealthy signals

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