License blobs

5 datasets

• License blobs #

  Dataset size

  30 GiB

  Export date

  2025-05-18

  Derived of

  Full compressed graph [2025-05-18]

  SWH Annex URL

  https://annex.softwareheritage.org/public/dataset/license-blobs/2025-05-18/

  Download

  The HTTP links point to directories listing all available files.

  wget --recursive --no-parent --reject "index.html*" https://annex.softwareheritage.org/public/dataset/license-blobs/2025-05-18/

  Referencing the dataset

  If you use this dataset for research purposes, please acknowledge Software Heritage as recommended in the publications page, which means doing the next two things:

  1. Add a footnote on the title page of your paper, formatted as: “This work was made possible by Software Heritage, the universal source code archive: https://www.softwareheritage.org”
  2. Cite the following papers:
     • Stefano Zacchiroli. A large-scale dataset of (open source) license text variants. In 19th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories, MSR 2022, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, May 23-24, 2022, 757–761. ACM, 2022. URL: https://doi.org/10.1145/3524842.3528491, doi:10.1145/3524842.3528491. (BibTeX)
     • Jesús M. González-Barahona, Sergio Raúl Montes León, Gregorio Robles, and Stefano Zacchiroli. The software heritage license dataset (2022 edition). Empir. Softw. Eng., 28(6):147, 2023. URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-023-10377-w, doi:10.1007/S10664-023-10377-W. (BibTeX)

• License blobs #

  Dataset size

  27.6 GiB

  Export date

  2024-12-06

  Derived of

  Full compressed graph [2024-12-06]

  SWH Annex URL

  https://annex.softwareheritage.org/public/dataset/license-blobs/2024-12-06/

  Download

  The HTTP links point to directories listing all available files.

  wget --recursive --no-parent --reject "index.html*" https://annex.softwareheritage.org/public/dataset/license-blobs/2024-12-06/

  Referencing the dataset

  If you use this dataset for research purposes, please acknowledge Software Heritage as recommended in the publications page, which means doing the next two things:

  1. Add a footnote on the title page of your paper, formatted as: “This work was made possible by Software Heritage, the universal source code archive: https://www.softwareheritage.org”
  2. Cite the following papers:
     • Stefano Zacchiroli. A large-scale dataset of (open source) license text variants. In 19th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories, MSR 2022, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, May 23-24, 2022, 757–761. ACM, 2022. URL: https://doi.org/10.1145/3524842.3528491, doi:10.1145/3524842.3528491. (BibTeX)
     • Jesús M. González-Barahona, Sergio Raúl Montes León, Gregorio Robles, and Stefano Zacchiroli. The software heritage license dataset (2022 edition). Empir. Softw. Eng., 28(6):147, 2023. URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-023-10377-w, doi:10.1007/S10664-023-10377-W. (BibTeX)

• License blobs #

  Dataset size

  16.4 GiB

  Export date

  2022-12-07

  Derived of

  Full compressed graph [2022-12-07]

  SWH Annex URL

  https://annex.softwareheritage.org/public/dataset/license-blobs/2022-12-07/

  Download

  The HTTP links point to directories listing all available files.

  wget --recursive --no-parent --reject "index.html*" https://annex.softwareheritage.org/public/dataset/license-blobs/2022-12-07/

  Referencing the dataset

  If you use this dataset for research purposes, please acknowledge Software Heritage as recommended in the publications page, which means doing the next two things:

  1. Add a footnote on the title page of your paper, formatted as: “This work was made possible by Software Heritage, the universal source code archive: https://www.softwareheritage.org”
  2. Cite the following papers:
     • Stefano Zacchiroli. A large-scale dataset of (open source) license text variants. In 19th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories, MSR 2022, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, May 23-24, 2022, 757–761. ACM, 2022. URL: https://doi.org/10.1145/3524842.3528491, doi:10.1145/3524842.3528491. (BibTeX)
     • Jesús M. González-Barahona, Sergio Raúl Montes León, Gregorio Robles, and Stefano Zacchiroli. The software heritage license dataset (2022 edition). Empir. Softw. Eng., 28(6):147, 2023. URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-023-10377-w, doi:10.1007/S10664-023-10377-W. (BibTeX)

• License blobs #

  Dataset size

  15.2 GiB

  Export date

  2022-04-25

  Derived of

  Full compressed graph [2022-04-25]

  SWH Annex URL

  https://annex.softwareheritage.org/public/dataset/license-blobs/2022-04-25/

  Download

  The HTTP links point to directories listing all available files.

  wget --recursive --no-parent --reject "index.html*" https://annex.softwareheritage.org/public/dataset/license-blobs/2022-04-25/

  Referencing the dataset

  If you use this dataset for research purposes, please acknowledge Software Heritage as recommended in the publications page, which means doing the next two things:

  1. Add a footnote on the title page of your paper, formatted as: “This work was made possible by Software Heritage, the universal source code archive: https://www.softwareheritage.org”
  2. Cite the following papers:
     • Stefano Zacchiroli. A large-scale dataset of (open source) license text variants. In 19th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories, MSR 2022, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, May 23-24, 2022, 757–761. ACM, 2022. URL: https://doi.org/10.1145/3524842.3528491, doi:10.1145/3524842.3528491. (BibTeX)
     • Jesús M. González-Barahona, Sergio Raúl Montes León, Gregorio Robles, and Stefano Zacchiroli. The software heritage license dataset (2022 edition). Empir. Softw. Eng., 28(6):147, 2023. URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-023-10377-w, doi:10.1007/S10664-023-10377-W. (BibTeX)

• License blobs #

  Dataset size

  14.1 GiB

  Export date

  2021-03-23

  Derived of

  Full compressed graph [2021-03-23]

  SWH Annex URL

  https://annex.softwareheritage.org/public/dataset/license-blobs/2021-03-23/

  Download

  The HTTP links point to directories listing all available files.

  wget --recursive --no-parent --reject "index.html*" https://annex.softwareheritage.org/public/dataset/license-blobs/2021-03-23/

  Referencing the dataset

  If you use this dataset for research purposes, please acknowledge Software Heritage as recommended in the publications page, which means doing the next two things:

  1. Add a footnote on the title page of your paper, formatted as: “This work was made possible by Software Heritage, the universal source code archive: https://www.softwareheritage.org”
  2. Cite the following papers:
     • Stefano Zacchiroli. A large-scale dataset of (open source) license text variants. In 19th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories, MSR 2022, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, May 23-24, 2022, 757–761. ACM, 2022. URL: https://doi.org/10.1145/3524842.3528491, doi:10.1145/3524842.3528491. (BibTeX)
     • Jesús M. González-Barahona, Sergio Raúl Montes León, Gregorio Robles, and Stefano Zacchiroli. The software heritage license dataset (2022 edition). Empir. Softw. Eng., 28(6):147, 2023. URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-023-10377-w, doi:10.1007/S10664-023-10377-W. (BibTeX)

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