8: Stefano Zacchiroli on preserving source code at Software Heritage

We are extremely excited to have on our first FOSS & Crafts guest: Stefano Zacchiroli! (Also known on some corners of the FOSS world as just "zack".) Stefano has a long history of FOSS advocacy, most famously for his role in Debian where he served three well-regarded terms as Debian Project Leader. These days zack works on Software Heritage, an archival institution for software source code. We talk about how Software Heritage plays a role in common with other GLAM institutions (which stands for "Galleries, Libraries Archives and Museums").

. o O (Could we possibly have a more appropriate FOSS & Crafts first guest episode?)

Links:

• Software Heritage

  • Information on Software Heritage for developers

  • Support Software Heritage!

• Inria

• Debian

• Guix

• Software Heritage and GNU Guix join forces to enable long term reproducibility

• Tragedy of the Commons

• Free-rider problem

• Rivalrous vs non-rivalrous goods