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iperov/deepfacelive vs sherlock-project/sherlock

sherlock-project/sherlock shows stronger signals overall

As of June 2026, sherlock shows healthier maintenance signals than deepfacelive. sherlock rates Healthy overall while deepfacelive rates Mixed. deepfacelive last saw a commit 1 year ago with 7+ active contributors, while sherlock was committed to 1 day ago with 24+ active contributors. deepfacelive is GPL-3.0-licensed while sherlock is MIT-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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iperov/deepfacelive

Mixed

Stale — last commit 1y ago

ConcernsDependency

copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility; last commit was 1y ago…

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

last commit was 1y ago; no CI workflows detected

  • Stale — last commit 1y ago
  • Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 86% of recent commits
  • GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
  • No CI workflows detected
  • No test directory detected
  • 7 active contributors
  • GPL-3.0 licensed

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency ConcernsMixed if: relicense under MIT/Apache-2.0 (rare for established libs)
  • Deploy as-is MixedHealthy if: 1 commit in the last 180 days

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

sherlock-project/sherlock

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.

HealthyDeploy as-is

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

  • Last commit today
  • 24+ active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 32% of recent commits)
  • MIT licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

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

deepfacelivesherlock
Stars30,82185,525
Last commit1y ago1d ago
LicenseGPL-3.0MIT
Open issues1299
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage0%100%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture gradeA
Cycles0
Bottom-lineMixed signalsHealthy signals

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