acaudwell/gource vs hyprwm/hyprland
hyprwm/hyprland shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, hyprland shows healthier maintenance signals than gource. hyprland rates Healthy overall while gource rates Mixed. gource last saw a commit 3 months ago with 13+ active contributors, while hyprland last saw a commit 1 month ago with 30+ active contributors. gource is GPL-3.0-licensed while hyprland is BSD-3-Clause-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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acaudwell/gource →
Mixed signals — read the receipts
copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility; 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.
No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 76% of recent commits
- ⚠GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ⚠No CI workflows detected
- ✓Last commit 2mo ago
- ✓13 active contributors
- ✓GPL-3.0 licensed
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → Mixed if: relicense under MIT/Apache-2.0 (rare for established libs)
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
hyprwm/hyprland →
Healthy across the board
Permissive license, no critical CVEs, actively maintained — safe to depend on.
Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 50% of recent commits
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓30+ active contributors
- ✓BSD-3-Clause licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| gource | hyprland | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 12,957 | 35,578 |
| Last commit | 3mo ago | 1mo ago |
| License | GPL-3.0 | BSD-3-Clause |
| Open issues | 128 | 185 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | — | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 47% | 23% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Healthy signals |
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