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hyprwm/hyprland vs lizardbyte/sunshine

Both showing Healthy signals — pick on fit, not health

As of September 2026, hyprland and sunshine both show healthy maintenance signals. hyprland last saw a commit 4 months ago with 30+ active contributors, while sunshine was committed to 1 week ago with 18+ active contributors. hyprland is BSD-3-Clause-licensed while sunshine is GPL-3.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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hyprwm/hyprland

Healthy

Strong maintenance signals

MixedDependency

dependency CVE scan unavailable

HealthyFork & modify

No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

MixedDeploy as-is

dependency CVE scan unavailable

  • 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

lizardbyte/sunshine

Healthy

Strong maintenance signals

ConcernsDependency

copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility

HealthyFork & modify

No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

HealthyDeploy as-is

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

hyprlandsunshine
Stars35,57840,814
Last commit4mo ago9d ago
LicenseBSD-3-ClauseGPL-3.0
Open issues185143
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage23%28%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture gradeA
Cycles0
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsHealthy signals

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