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The Open Source Ecosystems

• 10+ Million GitHub code repositories.

• 1 Million Sourceforge code repositories.

• 2500 public binary repositories.

  • Some repositories have strict publisher standards.

    • Some repositories enforce source code distribution.

    • No guarantee the published source code is the source code of the published binary.

  • Some repositories allow the republishing of a different set of bits for the same version.

  • Some repositories allow you to remove published artifacts.

• Many different packaging systems; even for the same language.

• Different coordinates systems and level of granularity.