lizardbyte/sunshine vs lltcggie/waifu2x-caffe
lizardbyte/sunshine shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, sunshine shows healthier maintenance signals than waifu2x-caffe. sunshine rates Healthy overall while waifu2x-caffe rates Mixed. sunshine last saw a commit 1 month ago with 18+ active contributors, while waifu2x-caffe last saw a commit 3 months ago with 11+ active contributors. sunshine is GPL-3.0-licensed while waifu2x-caffe is MIT-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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lizardbyte/sunshine →
Healthy across the board
copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility
Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
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 Concerns → 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 OpenSSF Scorecard
lltcggie/waifu2x-caffe →
Mixed signals — read the receipts
no tests detected; no CI workflows detected
Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 68% of recent commits
- ⚠No CI workflows detected
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ✓Last commit 6w ago
- ✓11 active contributors
- ✓MIT licensed
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Mixed → Healthy if: add a test suite
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| sunshine | waifu2x-caffe | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 36,974 | 8,226 |
| Last commit | 1mo ago | 3mo ago |
| License | GPL-3.0 | MIT |
| Open issues | 106 | 92 |
| Has tests | ✓ | — |
| Has CI | ✓ | — |
| Test coverage | 47% | 0% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Mixed signals |
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