torvalds/linux vs v-lavrenko/yari
Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health
As of June 2026, linux and yari both show mixed maintenance signals. linux was committed to 1 day ago with 28+ active contributors, while yari last saw a commit 3 months ago with 1+ active contributor. linux is Other-licensed while yari is GPL-3.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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torvalds/linux
Mixed signals — read the receipts
non-standard license (Other); no CI workflows detected
Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10; no CI workflows detected
- ⚠Non-standard license (Other) — review terms
- ⚠No CI workflows detected
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit 1d ago
- ✓28+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 29% of recent commits)
- ✓Other licensed
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- •Use as dependency Concerns to Mixed if: clarify license terms
- •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 OpenSSF Scorecard
v-lavrenko/yari
Slowing — last commit 4mo ago
copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility; single-maintainer (no co-maintainers visible)…
Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10; no CI workflows detected
- ⚠Slowing — last commit 4mo ago
- ⚠Solo or near-solo (1 contributor active in recent commits)
- ⚠GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ⚠No CI workflows detected
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit 4mo ago
- ✓GPL-3.0 licensed
- ✓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 OpenSSF Scorecard
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| linux | yari | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 237,695 | 8 |
| Last commit | 1d ago | 3mo ago |
| License | Other | GPL-3.0 |
| Open issues | 3 | 0 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | — | — |
| Test coverage | — | 12% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | C |
| Cycles | — | 0 |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Mixed signals |
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