Subscribe to the video channel! At Software Heritage, we work hard to build the universal archive of software source code, and we want to keep you up to date on what’s new and help you make the most out of the archive. A few weeks ago, we were happy to […]
Subscribe Source code is special: it’s executable knowledge that is meant to be human readable, by design. It’s an all time new in human history, and it deserves to become a first class citizen: as part of cultural heritage, as a pillar of Open Science in the scholarly world, […]
The mission of Software Heritage is to collect, preserve and share all the publicly available source code. With more than 7 billion source files from more than 120 million projects, the Software Heritage archive has the unique ability to retrace the detailed history of revisions of all versions of the code it contains. We […]
The Software Heritage Archive is an important resource in software preservation, not just as a critical repository of cultural heritage, but also for historical and sociological studies of how software is produced and the identification of legacy vulnerabilities of critical systems that have evolved over time. The Sloan Foundation is […]
A significant amount of publicly available source code is hosted free of charge on a variety of software development platforms, some of which have been and continue to be phased out for various reasons. Salvaging this code before it’s too late is one of the reasons why Software Heritage was […]
Software source code is a precious asset and an endangered heritage that we need to take care of, and this is why Software Heritage has the set goal to collect all publicly available software in source code form together with its development history, ensure its long term preservation, and make […]
We are delighted to announce today that Octobus and Tweag, with support from an European grant managed by NLNet, will contribute their expertise to Software Heritage’s long term mission to collect, preserve and share the source code of all software that is publicly available, a very important part of humankind’s […]
The mission of Software Heritage is to collect, preserve and share all the available source code, for the benefit of all. In the long journey we have undertaken, we are delighted to have established a strong partnership with UNESCO, starting with the Inria and UNESCO framework agreement on the preservation […]
El software de código abierto ha sido una de las fuerzas instrumentales e impulsoras de la innovación en este siglo. Software Heritage es una importante organización para el software, habiendo archivado ya más de 6 mil millones de archivos de fuente única. El archivo de código en forma curada mantiene […]
Al apoyar la iniciativa «Software Heritage», la Université Paris Cité continúa su compromiso con el acceso libre y responsable al conocimiento y al software de investigación. — Christine Clerici, Présidente de la Université Paris Cité
