quote from testimonials expressing their support for Software Heritage
CNRS’s support to Software Heritage, a universal, open and sustainable software archive, is a natural part of our proactive approach in favour of open science, a necessary revolution in which everyone must play a part. — Antoine Petit, Chairman and CEO, CNRS
Firmly committed to open science, which is at the heart of its project, Sorbonne University supports Software Heritage. By helping to collect and to share software, Software Heritage contributes to one of the key missions of the university: the preservation and transmission of knowledge and of our scientific heritage. — […]
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 […]
Huawei has been working with the open source communities for decades: we are active contributors in projects ranging from the Linux kernel to cloud native computing and machine learning, and we will keep increasing our participation and investment in this open innovation world. We share Software Heritage’s vision that publicly […]
Open source software has been one of the instrumental, driving forces of innovation this century. Software Heritage is an important organization for software, having already archived more than 6 billion unique source files. Archiving of code in a curated form maintains the technical and scientific knowledge that goes along with […]
By supporting the Software Heritage initiative, Université de Paris continues its commitment to the free and responsible sharing of knowledge and research software. — Christine Clerici, President of Université de Paris
GitHub recognizes the crucial importance of open source software and the work of millions of developers, around the globe, collaborating together. We at GitHub see it as part of our responsibility to protect OSS now and for decades to come. Inspired by the Software Heritage, an important steward of open […]
Faithful to its mission of public service, ENEA is proud to establish in its Bologna Center the first italian mirror of Software Heritage, contributing to preserve humankind’s source code, and adding a valuable piece to the complex ecosystem that today makes the Emilia Romagna Region an outpost of supercomputing and Data […]
The National Open Science Plan was launched on 4 July 2018 by the Minister of Higher Education, Research and Innovation. This plan includes a provision to support Software Heritage, an initiative that we consider a major pillar of open science. In addition to enabling open access to publications and research […]
Software source code represents unique knowledge of humanity’s recent history. It is therefore crucial to work together collectively so that the knowledge embedded in software source code is properly preserved, valued and shared with all. This lies at the core of UNESCO’s cooperation with Inria to support the creation of […]
