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eza

Modern ls with git awareness

provisional — pending verificationEUPL-1.2self-hostable

Arete score

4.8 / 5

Autonomy5

Return4

Efficiency5

Transparency5

ἀρετή “AH-reh-tay” — excellence: a thing being good at what it’s for. Mean of the four principle scores. How we score →

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~ Provisional — seeded estimate by a human researcher; full rubric pass pending.

Why it's listed

eza is listed in cli file & search tools because it competes on utility: modern ls with git awareness. It's community-maintained open source: the incentive is the tool itself. Licensed EUPL-1.2; pricing: free. Technically it's lean — it runs comfortably on modest hardware, which is exactly the proof-of-work efficiency we rank for. This entry is provisional — the scores are seeded estimates pending our full manual rubric pass, and the verification date will appear here once complete.

Facts

License: EUPL-1.2
Pricing: Free
Funding model: Community OSS
Self-hostable: Yes
Replaces: ls
Verification: Provisional — scores are seeded estimates pending manual verification

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