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To reference or cite the objects present in the Software Heritage archive, permalinks based on SoftWare Hash IDentifiers (SWHIDs) must be used.
Select below a type of object currently browsed in order to display its associated SWHID and permalink.

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Citations

This interface enables to generate software citations, provided that the root directory of browsed objects contains a citation.cff or codemeta.json file.
Select below a type of object currently browsed in order to generate citations for them.

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Generate software citation in BibTex format (requires biblatex-software package)
Generating citation ...
/bin/bash rkqc > /dev/null 2> /dev/null

if [ "$?" == "0" ]
then
  echo
  echo "It looks like \"rkqc\" is already in your \$PATH (possibly from a previous installation)."
  echo "Remove the old \"rkqc\" executable from your \$PATH, then source \"source_me\" one more time."
  echo
  echo
else
  export RKQC_PATH=$(pwd)/rkqc
  export PATH=$PATH:$RKQC_PATH
fi

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The source code of Software Heritage itself is available on our development forge.
The source code files archived by Software Heritage are available under their own copyright and licenses.
Terms of use: Archive access, API— Contact— JavaScript license information— Web API

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