rustdesk/rustdesk vs tw93/pake
rustdesk/rustdesk shows stronger signals overall
As of September 2026, rustdesk shows healthier maintenance signals than pake. rustdesk rates Healthy overall while pake rates Mixed. rustdesk was committed to 3 days ago with 32+ active contributors, while pake was committed to 1 week ago with 15+ active contributors. rustdesk is AGPL-3.0-licensed while pake is GPL-3.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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rustdesk/rustdesk
Strong maintenance signals
copyleft license (AGPL-3.0) — review compatibility
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10; 4 cyclic import chains — pervasive coupling
- ⚠AGPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓32+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 36% 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 dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard
tw93/pake
Mixed signals — read the receipts
copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
No blocking repository-level signals were found; deployment review is still required.
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 56% of recent commits
- ⚠GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓15 active contributors
- ✓GPL-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)
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| rustdesk | pake | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 123,381 | 61,322 |
| Last commit | 3d ago | 10d ago |
| License | AGPL-3.0 | GPL-3.0 |
| Open issues | 164 | 0 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 6% | 89% |
| Dependency CVEs | 0 critical · 0 high · 2 moderate · 0 low | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | B | A |
| Cycles | 4 | 0 |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Mixed signals |
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