luckypennysoftware/automapper: technical due diligence, read from its repository

Deleted lines per line added rose from 0.86 to 1.20 between the first and second halves of this history. Rework is normal and often healthy, but a rising ratio means an increasing share of the team's time is spent replacing code that already exists rather than building what does not. Whether that is deliberate repayment or churn is a question for the team.

3 third-party CI actions are referenced by a tag or branch rather than a commit, so they run whatever that tag points to on the day. Tags have been moved to malicious commits in real supply-chain attacks, and a piped script is whatever the server returns that minute. Pinning to a commit is the fix, and it is small.

LICENSE.md grants a choice of RPL-1.5 or a commercial licence: open source; offering it over a network counts as distributing it, so a hosted product's changes must be published; deploying it, even for internal business use, obliges publishing the source of any changes and extensions. The reading comes from the licence's own title and clauses. Whether the terms fit the buyer's intended use, and whether any paid licence transfers with the code, is a question for counsel and the licensor.

The newest was published on 2026-03-13. A project that publishes advisories is telling its users about its fixes, and the count and pace say how much security work it carries. None of them affects the surveyed version.