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apolloauto/apollo vs shadps4-emu/shadps4

apolloauto/apollo shows stronger signals overall

As of June 2026, apollo shows healthier maintenance signals than shadps4. apollo rates Healthy overall while shadps4 rates Mixed. apollo last saw a commit 2 months ago with 24+ active contributors, while shadps4 last saw a commit 1 month ago with 19+ active contributors. apollo is Apache-2.0-licensed while shadps4 is GPL-2.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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apolloauto/apollo

Healthy

Healthy across the board

HealthyDependency

Permissive license, no critical CVEs, actively maintained — safe to depend on.

HealthyFork & modify

Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

MixedDeploy as-is

Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10; no CI workflows detected

  • No CI workflows detected
  • Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
  • Last commit 4w ago
  • 24+ active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 35% of recent commits)
  • Apache-2.0 licensed
  • Tests present

What would improve this?

  • Deploy as-is MixedHealthy 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

shadps4-emu/shadps4

Mixed

Mixed signals — read the receipts

ConcernsDependency

copyleft license (GPL-2.0) — review compatibility; no tests detected

HealthyFork & modify

Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

HealthyDeploy as-is

No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.

  • GPL-2.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
  • No test directory detected
  • Last commit today
  • 19 active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 18% of recent commits)
  • GPL-2.0 licensed
  • CI configured

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency ConcernsMixed if: relicense under MIT/Apache-2.0 (rare for established libs)

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests

Signal-by-signal breakdown

apolloshadps4
Stars26,60931,040
Last commit2mo ago1mo ago
LicenseApache-2.0GPL-2.0
Open issues1,028139
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage60%0%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsMixed signals

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