cemu-project/cemu vs lizardbyte/sunshine
lizardbyte/sunshine shows stronger signals overall
As of September 2026, sunshine shows healthier maintenance signals than cemu. sunshine rates Healthy overall while cemu rates Mixed. cemu last saw a commit 4 months ago with 19+ active contributors, while sunshine was committed to 1 week ago with 18+ active contributors. cemu is MPL-2.0-licensed while sunshine is GPL-3.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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cemu-project/cemu
Evidence incomplete — review before adopting
test evidence incomplete; dependency CVE scan unavailable
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
dependency CVE scan unavailable
- ⚠Could not verify tests from the available repository evidence
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓19 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 38% of recent commits)
- ✓MPL-2.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
lizardbyte/sunshine
Strong maintenance signals
copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
No blocking repository-level signals were found; deployment review is still required.
- ⚠GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓18 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 31% of recent commits)
- ✓GPL-3.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- •Use as dependency Concerns to 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, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| cemu | sunshine | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 9,318 | 40,814 |
| Last commit | 4mo ago | 13d ago |
| License | MPL-2.0 | GPL-3.0 |
| Open issues | 368 | 143 |
| Has tests | Unknown | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 0% | 28% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | A |
| Cycles | — | 0 |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Healthy signals |
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