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juanfont/headscale vs zerotier/zerotierone

juanfont/headscale shows stronger signals overall

As of September 2026, headscale shows healthier maintenance signals than zerotierone. headscale rates Healthy overall while zerotierone rates Mixed. headscale was committed to 2 weeks ago with 12+ active contributors, while zerotierone was committed to 1 week ago with 4+ active contributors. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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juanfont/headscale

Healthy

Healthy across all four use cases

HealthyDependency

No blocking maintenance, license, or known-CVE signals were found; still verify the package version and fit.

HealthyFork & modify

No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

HealthyDeploy as-is

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

zerotier/zerotierone

Mixed

Single-maintainer risk — review before adopting

MixedDependency

top contributor handles 92% of recent commits; license evidence incomplete…

MixedFork & modify

license evidence incomplete

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

MixedDeploy as-is

license evidence incomplete; dependency CVE scan unavailable

  • Small team — 4 contributors active in recent commits
  • Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 92% of recent commits
  • Last commit 1w ago
  • 4 active contributors
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard

Signal-by-signal breakdown

headscalezerotierone
Stars43,39417,100
Last commit18d ago13d ago
LicenseBSD-3-ClauseUnknown
Open issues149403
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage100%19%
Dependency CVEs0 critical · 0 high · 9 moderate · 0 lowNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsMixed signals

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