rustdesk/rustdesk vs witnessmenow/esp32-cheap-yellow-display
rustdesk/rustdesk shows stronger signals overall
As of September 2026, rustdesk shows healthier maintenance signals than esp32-cheap-yellow-display. rustdesk rates Healthy overall while esp32-cheap-yellow-display rates Mixed. rustdesk was committed to 3 days ago with 32+ active contributors, while esp32-cheap-yellow-display last saw a commit 4 months ago with 35+ active contributors. rustdesk is AGPL-3.0-licensed while esp32-cheap-yellow-display is MIT-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
witnessmenow/esp32-cheap-yellow-display
Evidence incomplete — review before adopting
test evidence incomplete; dependency CVE scan unavailable
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
dependency CVE scan unavailable
- ⚠Could not verify tests from the available repository evidence
- ✓Last commit 3d ago
- ✓35+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 41% of recent commits)
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓CI configured
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| rustdesk | esp32-cheap-yellow-display | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 123,381 | 3,909 |
| Last commit | 3d ago | 4mo ago |
| License | AGPL-3.0 | MIT |
| Open issues | 164 | 78 |
| Has tests | ✓ | Unknown |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 6% | 0% |
| Dependency CVEs | 0 critical · 0 high · 2 moderate · 0 low | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | B | — |
| Cycles | 4 | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Mixed signals |
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