From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?utf-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= Subject: Re: Software Heritage & Guix Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2019 18:30:12 +0200 Message-ID: <871s2n0zxn.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87wokh8y4p.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:36026) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hAdLe-0003NS-9m for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Mar 2019 12:30:19 -0400 In-Reply-To: (mikadoZero's message of "Sat, 30 Mar 2019 21:57:45 -0400") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: mikadoZero Cc: Guix-devel Hi, mikadoZero skribis: > From reading the post I found it unclear what this Software Heritage > group is and what it's relation to Guix is. Software Heritage is a non-profit currently hosted by Inria (I work for Inria, but I=E2=80=99m not affiliated with Software Heritage.) I know the people who work on Software Heritage and I=E2=80=99m sympathetic to their g= oals, but other than that there=E2=80=99s no connection between them and Guix. T= heir web site explains their mission and goals better than I do. The archive they maintain is centralized (although it has mirrors). Long-term archival is something that cannot be left to peer-to-peer networks: it=E2=80=99s something where you want availability guarantee, whe= reas peer-to-peer storage networks usually replicate content that=E2=80=99s popu= lar, while unpopular content disappears. Ludo=E2=80=99.