quote from testimonials expressing their support for Software Heritage
Software is now at the heart of all human activity: our lives, our businesses, our culture depend on it. Software source code is a precious heritage that must be preserved and made accessible to the greatest number: this is the stated mission of Software Heritage. We strongly support this project, […]
The rate of change of open source software is continuing to accelerate beyond what is possible with manual tracking. License compliance is at the heart of what makes open source software — “open.” To make license compliance incredibly easy, we need to address how we detect and report license information, which will require a […]
Software is deeply entrenched in our life, and is the tool we use to create, access and share our culture. Software has become a fundamental component of society, and must be preserved for future generations through each stage of its evolution. At The Document Foundation, we are so convinced of […]
Software Heritage is the Alexandrian Library of humankind’s most important current technical expression: software. This project will allow us to do science about software in new and revolutionary ways. The free software movement dream of software everyone can study, copy, improve and share has no more important working public monument […]
Software is redefining the whole information and communication infrastructure, and embodies a growing amount of scientific and technical knowledge that is essential for the very existence of our modern societies. It is a core component of the innovation world today. We fully support the goals of the Software Heritage initiative, that is building […]
The creation of a uniform database of open source code is a critical first step in being able to understand the scope and breadth of open source innovation. As the largest patent non-aggression community in history, founded to support Linux and adjacent open source technologies, OIN strongly supports the Software […]
GitLab applauds the Software Heritage project for keeping open source software available for future generations. We believe everyone should contribute to preserve the software commons and a coordinated initiative like this will enable more people to do so. — Sytse ‘Sid’ Sijbrandij, CEO, GitLab
Software Heritage has set itself the important task of curating software for the long run at a global scale, and to safeguard the long term availability of these bits carefully crafted for all intents and purposes. Technology is shaping our age and our societies (to quote professor Lawrence Lessig: “code is law”), and its history […]
Software is the most important cultural technique of today’s society; it frames what we can and what we cannot do. Software shapes our communication and culture, our economy, education and research, as well as politics. It is important to preserve our collective knowledge about how software has influenced humankind. Collecting source code makes Software […]
Pythagoras prohibited his disciples to divulge his theories : mathematics was born in secrecy. However, the philosophers of the « Greek miracle » considered that ideas, the universal ones, belonged to all and should be shared freely. Our civilisation values the sharing of knowledge because it helps the growth of […]
