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microsoft/wsl vs shadowsocks/shadowsocks-qt5

microsoft/wsl shows stronger signals overall

As of June 2026, wsl shows healthier maintenance signals than shadowsocks-qt5. wsl rates Healthy overall while shadowsocks-qt5 rates Mixed. wsl last saw a commit 1 month ago with 22+ active contributors, while shadowsocks-qt5 last saw a commit 6 years ago with 12+ active contributors. wsl is MIT-licensed while shadowsocks-qt5 is LGPL-3.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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microsoft/wsl

Healthy

Healthy across the board

HealthyDependency

Permissive license, no critical CVEs, actively maintained — safe to depend on.

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.

  • Last commit today
  • 22+ active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 42% of recent commits)
  • MIT licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests

shadowsocks/shadowsocks-qt5

Mixed

Stale — last commit 7y ago

ConcernsDependency

copyleft license (LGPL-3.0) — review compatibility; last commit was 7y 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 7y ago
  • Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 81% of recent commits
  • LGPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
  • No test directory detected
  • 12 active contributors
  • LGPL-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

wslshadowsocks-qt5
Stars32,1947,942
Last commit1mo ago6y ago
LicenseMITLGPL-3.0
Open issues95375
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage4%0%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsMixed signals

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