FOSSID Establishes First Independent Mirror of World's Largest Source Code Archive: FOSSID mirrors Software Heritage's growing source code archive of 5 billon source code files, enabling continuous access to digital information

STOCKHOLM and PARIS, Dec. 6, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- FOSSID and Software Heritage today announced that they have signed an agreement to establish the first independent mirror of the largest source code archive in the world.

5 Billion source code files and growing

Software Heritage collects, preserves, and shares software code (both freely and not freely licensed) in a universal software storage archive. FOSSID helps secure the archive in an independent mirror outside of the initial hosting at the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (Inria). To date, the archive holds 5.3 Billion source files from 86.4 Million projects, including Debian, HitHub, GitLab, Gitorious, GoogleCode, GNY, HAL, Inria, Python Package Index, and more.

Securing our digital heritage for the future

"The purpose of the archive is to structure and preserve knowledge, and enable continuous access to digital information", said Professor Roberto Di Cosmo, founder and director of Software Heritage. "FOSSID shares this vision: by becoming the first independent mirror...