During the Open Compliance Summit 2024 in Tokyo on the 31st of October, Roberto Di Cosmo (Founder & Director, Software Heritage; Chair of the Software Chapter of the French National Committee for Open Science), presented on the topic of ‘Compliance and Integrity in the Software Supply Chain with Software Heritage: A Call to Action.’
This presentation explored how Software Heritage’s initiatives, including the SWHID (Software Hash Identifier) and the upcoming “Code Commons” project, are poised to enhance compliance across the software supply chain. By integrating with SPDX and contributing to global standards, Software Heritage not only guarantees the availability and integrity of software source code, but also drives forward the business management of open source.
His presentation can be found below:
About Software Heritage
Software Heritage, launched by Inria in 2016 in partnership with UNESCO, is a global non profit long term initiative to collect, preserve and make easily accessible all publicly available source code. As the reference infrastructure for archiving and referencing, it offers unparalleled potential to address these challenges.