netbirdio/netbird vs zerotier/zerotierone
netbirdio/netbird shows stronger signals overall
As of September 2026, netbird shows healthier maintenance signals than zerotierone. netbird rates Healthy overall while zerotierone rates Mixed. netbird was committed to 3 days ago with 20+ 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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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
zerotier/zerotierone
Single-maintainer risk — review before adopting
top contributor handles 92% of recent commits; license evidence incomplete…
license evidence incomplete
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
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
| netbird | zerotierone | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 29,176 | 17,100 |
| Last commit | 3d ago | 13d ago |
| License | AGPL-3.0 | Unknown |
| Open issues | 1,510 | 403 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 47% | 19% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Mixed signals |
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