Testimonials
A number of world renowned international organizations, individuals, and companies express support for our software preservation mission.
Simon Phipps
Open source software is now the assumed default for the IT industry and for every computer user. It is also here to stay for the foreseeable future. We now need to secure past open source achievements…
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Sloan Foundation
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 softwar…
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Société Générale
We are aware of the code’s value for our digital transformation, it has become a major asset for the bank and we firmly believe that we must preserve it in the long term. Open Source lies at the hea…
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Societé Informatique de France
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 g…
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Society for Research Software in Germany (de-RSE)
Software development is an essential, integral part of research activity. Research lives from the exchange of ideas as well as research data. Without software, a lot of research could and would not ex…
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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 we are only beginning to…
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Software Freedom Law Center
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 revolutionar…
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Sorbonne Université
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 on…
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The Document Foundation
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 gene…
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The Linux Foundation
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…
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UNESCO
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 properl…
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Université de Lorraine
Software is often at the heart of the scientific endeavor in most disciplines, all the way from tiny pieces of it to worldwide, decades long, millions of lines projects. Its archival, openness and cit…
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Université Paris Cité
By supporting the Software Heritage initiative, Université Paris Cité continues its commitment to the free and responsible sharing of knowledge and research software. — Christine Clerici, Presiden…
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UQAM
UQAM supports and assumes the mission of Software Heritage. We are convinced that it is imperative to preserve and promote access to software that contributes to knowledge dissemination. We also recog…
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VMware
To collect, preserve, and share all software that is publicly available in source code form is a tremendous task and a tremendously important one. VMware believes that open source software is an essen…
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