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date: '2025-09-25'
description: "Libraries.io has released data on over 25 million open source software\
  \ repositories, highlighting the intricate dependencies within modern software.\
  \ This release aims to address the sustainability crisis faced by key projects,\
  \ as previously documented in Nadia Eghbal\u2019s \"Roads and Bridges.\" The data\
  \ is available under a Creative Commons BY-SA-4.0 license on Zenodo and will soon\
  \ be hosted in a structured format on Google BigQuery. This effort underscores the\
  \ necessity for community-driven solutions to support overburdened maintainers and\
  \ fractured ecosystems in the open source landscape."
link: /archive/2025-09-20-libraries-io-releases-data-on-over-25m-open-source-software-repositories-by-benjamin-nickolls-librar
tags:
- Open Data
- Open Source
- Sustainability
- Digital Infrastructure
- Software Repositories
- weblog
title: "Libraries.io Releases Data on Over 25m Open Source Software Repositories \u25C6\
  \ by Benjamin Nickolls \u25C6 Libraries.io \u25C6 Medium"
type: weblog
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I recently found this gem of a project. Looks like libraries.io was acquired by Tidelift that was acquired by Sonar, and is not abandoned. It's AGPL license preventing others to pick it up?

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> For nearly three years, [Libraries.io](https://web.archive.org/web/20240325010337/https://libraries.io/) has been gathering data on the complex web of interdependency that exists in open source software. We’ve published a series of experiments using harvested metadata to highlight projects [in need of assistance](https://web.archive.org/web/20240325010337/https://libraries.io/help-wanted), [projects with too few contributors](https://web.archive.org/web/20240325010337/https://libraries.io/bus-factor) and [too little attention.](https://web.archive.org/web/20240325010337/https://libraries.io/digital-infrastructure)

This project has been going on from ~2016?

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