lizardbyte/sunshine vs px4/px4-autopilot
Both showing Healthy signals — pick on fit, not health
As of June 2026, sunshine and px4-autopilot both show healthy maintenance signals. sunshine last saw a commit 1 month ago with 18+ active contributors, while px4-autopilot last saw a commit 1 month ago with 30+ active contributors. sunshine is GPL-3.0-licensed while px4-autopilot is BSD-3-Clause-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
px4/px4-autopilot →
Healthy across the board
Permissive license, no critical CVEs, actively maintained — safe to depend on.
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.
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓30+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 40% of recent commits)
- ✓BSD-3-Clause licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| sunshine | px4-autopilot | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 36,974 | 11,680 |
| Last commit | 1mo ago | 1mo ago |
| License | GPL-3.0 | BSD-3-Clause |
| Open issues | 106 | 1,466 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 47% | 7% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Healthy signals |
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