Software Heritage
Software Heritage: Open Archive for Software Source Code and Development History
A comprehensive repository of open source software, preserving publicly available source code and its development history across multiple platforms and version control systems.
What is Software Heritage?
Software Heritage is a non-profit initiative started in 2016 to collect, preserve, and make easily accessible the source code of all software that is publicly available. Its mission is to become an exhaustive archive and library of software source code to serve the needs of science, culture, and industry.
Software Heritage archives software source code from many major code hosting and development platforms such as GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab, SourceForge, Debian, and GNU Savannah. It retrieves their public code repositories and associated development history across all available versions over time. This data is stored in a universal, deduplicated data model that links code origins and development history into a single graph structure.
The archive can be queried through a web interface or API to search for code and explore its development. All data collected by Software Heritage is freely available to the public under open licenses. The project is supported by funding from public institutions in France and Europe to serve the public good by preserving an essential part of humanity's digital science, technology, and culture for future generations.
Software Heritage Features
Features
- Comprehensive archive of publicly available source code
- Tracks the development history and evolution of software over time
- Supports many major code hosting platforms like GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, etc
- Powerful search and query capabilities
- Web API for programmatic access
- Web UI for browsing and visualizing software evolution
- Integrates with popular developer tools like Git
- Preserves vulnerable, abandoned, or taken-down software projects
- Deduplication of code to save storage space
Pricing
- Open Source
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