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nsqio/nsq vs screego/server

nsqio/nsq shows stronger signals overall

As of June 2026, nsq shows healthier maintenance signals than server. nsq rates Healthy overall while server rates Mixed. nsq last saw a commit 11 months ago with 20+ active contributors, while server last saw a commit 2 months ago with 7+ active contributors. nsq is MIT-licensed while server is GPL-3.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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nsqio/nsq

Healthy

Healthy across all four use cases

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.

  • Slowing — last commit 10mo ago
  • Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 51% of recent commits
  • Last commit 10mo ago
  • 20 active contributors
  • MIT licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

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

screego/server

Mixed

Single-maintainer risk — review before adopting

ConcernsDependency

copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility; top contributor handles 94% of recent commits…

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.

  • Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 94% of recent commits
  • GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
  • No test directory detected
  • Last commit 2w ago
  • 7 active contributors
  • GPL-3.0 licensed
  • CI configured

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

Signal-by-signal breakdown

nsqserver
Stars25,72710,364
Last commit11mo ago2mo ago
LicenseMITGPL-3.0
Open issues7413
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage24%0%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsMixed signals

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