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Black Duck’s Ohloh lets data from nearly 500,000 open source projects into the wild by Chris Mayer.
From the post:
In a bumper announcement, Black Duck Software have embraced the FOSS mantra by revealing their equivalent of a repository Yellow Pages, through the Ohloh Open Data Initiative.
The website tracks 488,823 projects, allowing users to compare data from a vast amount of repositories and forges. But now, Ohloh’s huge dataset has been licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license, encouraging further transparency across the companies who have already bought into Ohloh’s aggregation mission directive.
“Licensing Ohloh data under Creative Commons offers both enterprises and the open source community a new level of access to FOSS data, allowing trending, tracking, and insight for the open source community,” said Tim Yeaton, President and CEO of Black Duck Software.
He added: “We are constantly looking for ways to help the open source developer community and enterprise consumers of open source. We’re proud to freely license Ohloh data under this respected license, and believe that making this resource more accessible will allow contributors and consumers of open source gain unique insight, leading to more rapid development and adoption.”
What sort of insight would you expect to gain from “…10 billion lines of code…?”
How would you capture it? Pass it on to others in your project?
Mix or match semantics with other lines of code? Perhaps your own?