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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

Healthy across the board

ConcernsDependency

copyleft license (LGPL-2.1) — review compatibility

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.

  • 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 ConcernsMixed 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

Mixed signals — read the receipts

ConcernsDependency

non-standard license (Other); no tests detected

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
  • 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 ConcernsMixed 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

nixqbittorrent
Stars16,81737,971
Last commit1mo ago25d ago
LicenseLGPL-2.1Other
Open issues4,0402,624
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage80%0%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture gradeC
Cycles0
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsMixed signals

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