lizardbyte/sunshine vs yangyangwithgnu/hardseed
lizardbyte/sunshine shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, sunshine shows healthier maintenance signals than hardseed. sunshine rates Healthy overall while hardseed rates Mixed. sunshine last saw a commit 1 month ago with 18+ active contributors, while hardseed last saw a commit 7 years ago with 3+ active contributors. sunshine is GPL-3.0-licensed while hardseed is GPL-2.0-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
yangyangwithgnu/hardseed →
Stale — last commit 8y ago
copyleft license (GPL-2.0) — review compatibility; last commit was 8y ago…
Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
last commit was 8y ago; no CI workflows detected
- ⚠Stale — last commit 8y ago
- ⚠Small team — 3 contributors active in recent commits
- ⚠Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 84% of recent commits
- ⚠GPL-2.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ⚠No CI workflows detected
- ✓3 active contributors
- ✓GPL-2.0 licensed
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → Mixed if: relicense under MIT/Apache-2.0 (rare for established libs)
- →Deploy as-is Mixed → Healthy 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
| sunshine | hardseed | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 36,974 | 9,216 |
| Last commit | 1mo ago | 7y ago |
| License | GPL-3.0 | GPL-2.0 |
| Open issues | 106 | 37 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | — |
| Test coverage | 47% | 6% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Mixed signals |
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