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lizardbyte/sunshine vs microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml

Both showing Healthy signals — pick on fit, not health

As of June 2026, sunshine and microsoft-ui-xaml both show healthy maintenance signals. sunshine last saw a commit 1 month ago with 18+ active contributors, while microsoft-ui-xaml last saw a commit 1 month ago with 27+ active contributors. sunshine is GPL-3.0-licensed while microsoft-ui-xaml is MIT-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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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

microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml

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 1d ago
  • 27+ active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 23% of recent commits)
  • MIT licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

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

Signal-by-signal breakdown

sunshinemicrosoft-ui-xaml
Stars36,9747,498
Last commit1mo ago1mo ago
LicenseGPL-3.0MIT
Open issues1062,127
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage47%100%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsHealthy signals

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