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lizardbyte/sunshine vs raulmur/orb_slam2

lizardbyte/sunshine shows stronger signals overall

As of June 2026, sunshine shows healthier maintenance signals than orb_slam2. sunshine rates Healthy overall while orb_slam2 rates Concerns. sunshine last saw a commit 1 month ago with 18+ active contributors, while orb_slam2 last saw a commit 2 years ago with 1+ active contributor. sunshine is GPL-3.0-licensed while orb_slam2 is Other-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

raulmur/orb_slam2

Concerns

Looks unmaintained — solo project with stale commits

ConcernsDependency

non-standard license (Other); last commit was 2y 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 2y ago; no CI workflows detected

  • Stale — last commit 2y ago
  • Solo or near-solo (1 contributor active in recent commits)
  • Non-standard license (Other) — review terms
  • No CI workflows detected
  • No test directory detected
  • Other licensed

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency ConcernsMixed if: clarify license terms; 1 commit in the last 365 days
  • 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

Signal-by-signal breakdown

sunshineorb_slam2
Stars36,97410,152
Last commit1mo ago2y ago
LicenseGPL-3.0Other
Open issues106805
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage47%0%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsConcerns signals

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