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klauspost/compress vs spf13/cobra

Both showing Healthy signals — pick on fit, not health

As of June 2026, compress and cobra both show healthy maintenance signals. compress last saw a commit 1 month ago with 30+ active contributors, while cobra last saw a commit 2 months ago with 51+ active contributors. compress is Other-licensed while cobra is Apache-2.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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klauspost/compress

Healthy

Healthy across the board

ConcernsDependency

non-standard license (Other)

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.

  • Non-standard license (Other) — review terms
  • Last commit today
  • 30+ active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 46% of recent commits)
  • Other licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency ConcernsMixed if: clarify license terms

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests

spf13/cobra

Healthy

Healthy across the board

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.

  • Last commit 2w ago
  • 51+ active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 11% of recent commits)
  • Apache-2.0 licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests

Signal-by-signal breakdown

compresscobra
Stars5,48943,893
Last commit1mo ago2mo ago
LicenseOtherApache-2.0
Open issues5363
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage96%3%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsHealthy signals

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