jakewharton/butterknife vs tronprotocol/java-tron
tronprotocol/java-tron shows stronger signals overall
As of September 2026, java-tron shows healthier maintenance signals than butterknife. java-tron rates Healthy overall while butterknife rates Mixed. butterknife last saw a commit 3 years ago with 17+ active contributors, while java-tron was committed to 3 weeks ago with 14+ 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
Stale — last commit 3y ago
last commit was 3y ago; dependency CVE scan unavailable
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
last commit was 3y ago; dependency CVE scan unavailable
- ⚠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
Strong maintenance signals
copyleft license (LGPL-3.0) — review compatibility; dependency CVE scan unavailable
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
Scorecard "Token-Permissions" is 0/10; dependency CVE scan unavailable
- ⚠LGPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ✓Last commit 5d ago
- ✓14 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 25% of recent commits)
- ✓LGPL-3.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- •Use as dependency Concerns to 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, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| butterknife | java-tron | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 25,377 | 4,148 |
| Last commit | 3y ago | 23d ago |
| License | Apache-2.0 | LGPL-3.0 |
| Open issues | 119 | 38 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 57% | 54% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | C |
| Cycles | — | 0 |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Healthy signals |
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