Decision Workspace
license-fetcher vs flicense vs memchr
Side-by-side comparison of Rust crates
60
license-fetcher
growingv0.10.1
Fetch licenses of dependencies at build time and embed them into your program.
50
flicense
growingv0.6.2
CLI for printing license information of rust cargo projects to the terminal.
75
memchr
stablev2.8.3
Provides extremely fast (uses SIMD on x86_64, aarch64 and wasm32) routines for 1, 2 or 3 byte search and single substring search.
Core Metrics
| license-fetcher | flicense | memchr | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Score | 60 | 50 | 75 |
| Total Downloads | 18.6K | 5.5K | 1.1B |
| 30d Downloads | 0 | 0 | 60.6M |
| Dependents | 78 | 0 | 24.7K |
| Releases | 28 | 15 | 47 |
| Last Updated | 33d ago | 31d ago | 6d ago |
| Age | 1y 10m | 1y 5m | 11y 1m |
Health Breakdown
license-fetcher
Maintenance
17
Quality
15
Community
11
Popularity
5
Documentation
12
flicense
Maintenance
17
Quality
13
Community
6
Popularity
4
Documentation
10
memchr
Maintenance
18
Quality
22
Community
12
Popularity
8
Documentation
15
Technical Details
| license-fetcher | flicense | memchr | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version | 0.10.1 | 0.6.2 | 2.8.3 |
| Stable (≥1.0) | ✗ No | ✗ No | ✓ Yes |
| License | MPL-2.0 | BSL-1.0 | Unlicense OR MIT |
| Dependencies | 14 | 9 | 3 |
| Crate Size | 42KB | 12KB | 99KB |
| Features | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| Yanked % | 0.0% | 0.0% | 2.1% |
| Edition | 2024 | 2024 | 2021 |
| MSRV | 1.88.0 | 1.88.0 | 1.61 |
| Owners | 1 | 1 | 1 |
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Quick Verdict
- •memchr leads with a health score of 75/100, but none of the options score above 80.
- •memchr is depended on by 24.7K crates — strongest ecosystem trust.
- •license-fetcher, flicense are pre-1.0 — API may change.