Eclipse Foundation
Software is the fabric which binds our personal, social, industrial, and digital lives. It is an important part of our cultural heritage, as well as a significant portion of the intellectual…
Free Software Foundation
The freedom—and the ability—to build on the work of others is core to free software. Also central is the ability to be nimble and future-proof, to not be hostage to…
IEEE Software
I read with great interest the proposal to create a public archive of software artifacts and associated metadata as a way to grow a universal body of scientific and technical knowledge….
ACM SigSoft
The Association of Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (ACM SIGSOFT) is an international scientific and educational organization dedicated to advancing the art, science, engineering, and application of software. ACM…
Informatics Europe
With this letter we would like to express Informatics Europe’s support to the “Software Heritage” project. Informatics Europe fully support the projects’ mission of collecting, organising, preserving and sharing all the…
Open Source Initiative
The fundamental advantage of open source software is the freedom to use, modify, and redistribute existing work, accelerating innovation into the future. The Open Source Initiative is pleased to support…
Creative Commons
The commons is made up of many parts, and many movements, with free and open software being an essential element. Archiving and open repositories are vital to a thriving and growing commons,…
Gouvernement Français (DINUM)
Les données ouvertes sont le carburant et les logiciels sont le moteur de la transformation numérique qui entraîne le changement dans tous les aspects des sociétés modernes. En collectant, ainsi…
OW2
Open source is making the way we develop, share and maintain software and even do business with it more open, transparent, fair and efficient for the benefit of all. While…
Software Freedom Conservancy
We have decades of free and open source software that are the building blocks of the technology we rely on, all of which is interacting in new ways the implications of which…