nixos/nix vs qbittorrent/qbittorrent
nixos/nix shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, nix shows healthier maintenance signals than qbittorrent. nix rates Healthy overall while qbittorrent rates Mixed. nix last saw a commit 1 month ago with 11+ active contributors, while qbittorrent was committed to 3 weeks ago with 24+ active contributors. nix is LGPL-2.1-licensed while qbittorrent is Other-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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nixos/nix →
Healthy across the board
copyleft license (LGPL-2.1) — review compatibility
Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.
- ⚠LGPL-2.1 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ✓Last commit 1d ago
- ✓11 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 39% of recent commits)
- ✓LGPL-2.1 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → 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
qbittorrent/qbittorrent →
Mixed signals — read the receipts
non-standard license (Other); no tests detected
Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.
- ⚠Non-standard license (Other) — review terms
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit 3d ago
- ✓24+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 25% of recent commits)
- ✓Other licensed
- ✓CI configured
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → Mixed if: clarify license terms
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| nix | qbittorrent | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 16,817 | 37,971 |
| Last commit | 1mo ago | 25d ago |
| License | LGPL-2.1 | Other |
| Open issues | 4,040 | 2,624 |
| Has tests | ✓ | — |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 80% | 0% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | C |
| Cycles | — | 0 |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Mixed signals |
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