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purl2cpe
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scanoss / purl2cpe

purl2cpe

PURL to CPE Relationship mapping project.

2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
132GitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

PURL to CPE Relationship mapping project.

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by hour2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2024-10-01 18:08:50 UTC to 2024-10-01 18:46:17 UTC.

0122024-10-01 18:00:00 UTC to 2024-10-01 19:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 commentsOct 1, 18:00

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Oct 1, 18:002024-10-01 18:00:00 UTC2024-10-01 19:00:00 UTC211

What Hacker News says

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The dev's own comment (https://github.com/scanoss/purl2cpe/issues/24#issuecomment-2...) is infuriating: > For your information, bad language is banned in most organizations and, therefore, if you are interested in having adoption of your Open Source, it is good practice to avoid such language. > If you are not willing to receive contributions from the community, if you are not interested in your Open Source contribution gaining adoption, or if you prefer people to sign special agreements to make contributions, perhaps you are better off closing down your repository, making it private. How about, if I release something for free, that I made on my own time, anyone can feel free not to use it if they don't like how I've written it. I don't think I've even sworn in a public repo. I try to keep it professional. But if I did, and someone has a
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problem with it, they can write their own fucking software. They're not paying me to cater to their whims.
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