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lizardbyte/sunshine vs rovo89/xposed

lizardbyte/sunshine shows stronger signals overall

As of June 2026, sunshine shows healthier maintenance signals than xposed. sunshine rates Healthy overall while xposed rates Mixed. sunshine last saw a commit 1 month ago with 18+ active contributors, while xposed last saw a commit 6 years ago with 8+ active contributors. sunshine is GPL-3.0-licensed while xposed 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

rovo89/xposed

Mixed

Stale — last commit 6y ago

ConcernsDependency

non-standard license (Other); last commit was 6y ago…

MixedFork & modify

no tests detected; no CI workflows detected…

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

MixedDeploy as-is

last commit was 6y ago; no CI workflows detected

  • Stale — last commit 6y ago
  • Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 87% of recent commits
  • Non-standard license (Other) — review terms
  • No CI workflows detected
  • No test directory detected
  • 8 active contributors
  • Other licensed

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency ConcernsMixed if: clarify license terms
  • Fork & modify MixedHealthy if: add a test suite
  • 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

sunshinexposed
Stars36,9747,687
Last commit1mo ago6y ago
LicenseGPL-3.0Other
Open issues106158
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage47%0%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsMixed signals

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