Software Heritage - collecting source code
Interesting thing seen recently... "The long term goal of the Software Heritage initiative is to collect all publicly available software in source code form together with its development history, replicate it massively to ensure its preservation, and share it with everyone who needs it. The Software Heritage archive is growing over time as we crawl new source code from software projects and development forges. We will incrementally release archive search and browse functionalities — as of now you can check whether source code you care about is already present in the archive or not." A goodly set of "our stuff" is thereby archived... https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/search/?q=gtalug People have been worried about GitHub having been acquired by Microsoft; this sort of thing is part of what can be, to some extent, a protection against that. On the other hand, I'll bet this runs afoul of GRDP, and might run afoul of "right to be forgotten" laws that are starting to emerge. -- When confronted by a difficult problem, solve it by reducing it to the question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?"
On 2018-10-15 5:57 p.m., Christopher Browne via talk wrote:
Interesting thing seen recently...
"The long term goal of the Software Heritage initiative is to collect all publicly available software in source code form together with its development history, replicate it massively to ensure its preservation, and share it with everyone who needs it. The Software Heritage archive is growing over time as we crawl new source code from software projects and development forges. We will incrementally release archive search and browse functionalities — as of now you can check whether source code you care about is already present in the archive or not."
A goodly set of "our stuff" is thereby archived...
https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/search/?q=gtalug
People have been worried about GitHub having been acquired by Microsoft; this sort of thing is part of what can be, to some extent, a protection against that.
On the other hand, I'll bet this runs afoul of GRDP, and might run afoul of "right to be forgotten" laws that are starting to emerge.
I might want to petition the courts to take my name off my first few assembler programs . I'm not sure they'd let me, though (;-)) --dave -- David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify System Programmer and Author | some people and astonish the rest davecb@spamcop.net | -- Mark Twain
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