Software, and software source code in particular, is a pillar of modern research, and a stepping stone for Open Science. It must be properly archived, referenced, described and cited in…

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…

Software Heritage is a long term effort to build a common infrastructure to collect, preserve and share the source code of all software publicly available. We are delighted to share…

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…

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…

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…

Software projects are a precious part of our technical, scientific and organisational knowledge, and that’s why Software Heritage’s mission is to collect, preserve and share all their source code. In…

In recent years, the trend of adding badges to a repository’s README file, became very popular. Many possibilities exist; license, continuous integration, passing tests, peer reviewed, chat, release date, and…