How do you know that the .exe or .apk file for an open source software on github is actually compiled from the viewable source code?

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  • Visual Studio Code

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  • The version of Visual Studio Code published by Microsoft, for example, uses a non-open source license because their build process adds proprietary components (e.g., telemetry). (VSCodium was created to generate FOSS releases from Microsoft's core repository)

  • rfcs

    Public change requests/proposals & ideation (by npm)

  • This just got accepted as a proposal in NPM: https://github.com/npm/rfcs/pull/626

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  • witness

    Witness is a pluggable framework for software supply chain risk management. It automates, normalizes, and verifies software artifact provenance.

  • Verifying provenance across CI steps is what the in-toto project was designed to help with. We implement in-toto with our open-source projects, Witness and Archivist.

  • archivista

    Archivista is a graph and storage service for in-toto attestations. Archivista enables the discovery and retrieval of attestations for software artifacts.

  • Verifying provenance across CI steps is what the in-toto project was designed to help with. We implement in-toto with our open-source projects, Witness and Archivist.

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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