Difference between revisions of "Software Heritage"

Latest revision as of 14:12, 8 October 2023

Software Heritage is a European-funded effort to archive software source code of all kinds, including all the versions thereof. It offers instant saving of individual repos and regularly saving all repos on a forge. The archive is publicly available and the LWN article "Preserving the global software heritage" gives more details.

Other software archives include:

Codearchiver
GitHub
https://snapshot.debian.org/ (archive of all Debian history including binaries and source code)
https://archive.org/details/software (focuses on binaries and the most ephemeral software; open submission)
http://openhub.net/ (focused on analysis; open submission)

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-'''Software Heritage''' is a European-funded effort to archive FOSS of all kinds, including all the versions thereof. See https://www.softwareheritage.org/archive/ and https://lwn.net/Articles/693092/ (which gives more details)
+'''Software Heritage''' is a European-funded effort to archive software source code of all kinds, including all the versions thereof. It offers [https://archive.softwareheritage.org/save/ instant saving of individual repos] and  [https://archive.softwareheritage.org/add-forge/ regularly saving all repos on a forge]. The [https://archive.softwareheritage.org/ archive] is publicly available and the LWN article "[https://lwn.net/Articles/693092/ Preserving the global software heritage]" gives more details.
-Other archives are:
+Other software archives include:
+* [[Codearchiver]]
+* [[GitHub]]
+* https://snapshot.debian.org/ (archive of all Debian history including binaries and source code)
 * https://archive.org/details/software (focuses on binaries and the most ephemeral software; open submission)
 * http://openhub.net/ (focused on analysis; open submission)