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The main topic of this wiki is the Software Heritage project, whose stated mission is to collect, organize, preserve, and share all publicly available source code for present and future generations.
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The Software Heritage initiative has the stated goal to ''collect, organise, preserve, and share'' all the ''source code'' of the software that is publicly available.
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This is an ambitious goal that starts from ''protecting the past'', in the spirit of many other [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_preservation digital preservation] initiatives, and focuses on providing the best information to software users and developers in the present, in order to improve our future.
  
 
== Links ==
 
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* [https://www.softwareheritage.org Software Heritage homepage]
 
* [https://www.softwareheritage.org Software Heritage homepage]

Latest revision as of 13:02, 20 July 2016

The Software Heritage initiative has the stated goal to collect, organise, preserve, and share all the source code of the software that is publicly available.

This is an ambitious goal that starts from protecting the past, in the spirit of many other digital preservation initiatives, and focuses on providing the best information to software users and developers in the present, in order to improve our future.

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