juanfont/headscale vs netbirdio/netbird
Both showing Healthy signals — pick on fit, not health
As of September 2026, headscale and netbird both show healthy maintenance signals. headscale was committed to 2 weeks ago with 12+ active contributors, while netbird was committed to 3 days ago with 20+ active contributors. headscale is BSD-3-Clause-licensed while netbird is AGPL-3.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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juanfont/headscale
Healthy across all four use cases
No blocking maintenance, license, or known-CVE signals were found; still verify the package version and fit.
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
No blocking repository-level signals were found; deployment review is still required.
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 78% of recent commits
- ⚠9 moderate-severity advisories on direct dependencies
- ✓Last commit 2d ago
- ✓12 active contributors
- ✓BSD-3-Clause licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard
netbirdio/netbird
Strong maintenance signals
copyleft license (AGPL-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 "Branch-Protection" is 1/10; Scorecard "Token-Permissions" is 0/10…
- ⚠AGPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (1/10)
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓20 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 17% of recent commits)
- ✓AGPL-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)
- •Deploy as-is Mixed to 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
| headscale | netbird | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 43,394 | 29,176 |
| Last commit | 18d ago | 3d ago |
| License | BSD-3-Clause | AGPL-3.0 |
| Open issues | 149 | 1,510 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 100% | 47% |
| Dependency CVEs | 0 critical · 0 high · 9 moderate · 0 low | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Healthy signals |
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