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lizardbyte/sunshine vs olive-editor/olive

lizardbyte/sunshine shows stronger signals overall

As of June 2026, sunshine shows healthier maintenance signals than olive. sunshine rates Healthy overall while olive rates Mixed. sunshine last saw a commit 1 month ago with 18+ active contributors, while olive last saw a commit 1 year ago with 6+ active contributors. Both use the GPL-3.0 license. 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

olive-editor/olive

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.

HealthyDeploy as-is

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

  • Stale — last commit 1y ago
  • Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 64% of recent commits
  • GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
  • No test directory detected
  • 6 active contributors
  • GPL-3.0 licensed
  • CI configured

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

Signal-by-signal breakdown

sunshineolive
Stars36,9749,012
Last commit1mo ago1y ago
LicenseGPL-3.0GPL-3.0
Open issues106157
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage47%0%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsMixed signals

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