sagernet/sing-box vs wei-shaw/sub2api
Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health
As of September 2026, sing-box and sub2api both show mixed maintenance signals. sing-box was committed to 6 days ago with 2+ active contributors, while sub2api was committed to 1 week ago with 20+ active contributors. sing-box is GPL-3.0-licensed while sub2api is LGPL-3.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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sagernet/sing-box
Single-maintainer risk — review before adopting
copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility; top contributor handles 99% of recent commits
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10; Scorecard "Token-Permissions" is 0/10
- ⚠Small team — 2 contributors active in recent commits
- ⚠Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 99% of recent commits
- ⚠GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit 2d ago
- ✓2 active contributors
- ✓GPL-3.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- •Use as dependency Concerns to Mixed if: relicense under MIT/Apache-2.0 (rare for established libs)
- •Deploy as-is Mixed to Healthy if: bring "Branch-Protection" to ≥3/10 (see scorecard report)
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard
wei-shaw/sub2api
Mixed signals — read the receipts
copyleft license (LGPL-3.0) — review compatibility
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
No blocking repository-level signals were found; deployment review is still required.
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 50% of recent commits
- ⚠LGPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓20 active contributors
- ✓LGPL-3.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- •Use as dependency Concerns to 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 dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| sing-box | sub2api | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 37,880 | 40,594 |
| Last commit | 6d ago | 10d ago |
| License | GPL-3.0 | LGPL-3.0 |
| Open issues | 327 | 3,080 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 12% | 100% |
| Dependency CVEs | 0 critical · 0 high · 9 moderate · 0 low | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | C |
| Cycles | — | 0 |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Mixed signals |
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