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draios/sysdig vs lizardbyte/sunshine

lizardbyte/sunshine shows stronger signals overall

As of June 2026, sunshine shows healthier maintenance signals than sysdig. sunshine rates Healthy overall while sysdig rates Mixed. sysdig last saw a commit 2 months ago with 7+ active contributors, while sunshine last saw a commit 1 month ago with 18+ active contributors. sysdig is Other-licensed while sunshine is GPL-3.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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draios/sysdig

Mixed

Single-maintainer risk — review before adopting

ConcernsDependency

non-standard license (Other); top contributor handles 92% of recent commits…

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.

  • Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 92% of recent commits
  • Non-standard license (Other) — review terms
  • No test directory detected
  • Last commit 4w ago
  • 7 active contributors
  • Other licensed
  • CI configured

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency ConcernsMixed if: clarify license terms

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

lizardbyte/sunshine

Healthy

Healthy across the board

ConcernsDependency

copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility

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-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
  • Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
  • Last commit today
  • 18 active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 27% of recent commits)
  • GPL-3.0 licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

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, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard

Signal-by-signal breakdown

sysdigsunshine
Stars8,24336,974
Last commit2mo ago1mo ago
LicenseOtherGPL-3.0
Open issues115106
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage0%47%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineMixed signalsHealthy signals

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