Pith Number

pith:KJWENCK5

pith:2025:KJWENCK5A6BWDGU5IZCFGXJUU3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Open Source at a Crossroads: The Future of Licensing Driven by Monetization

Brittany Anne Reid, Christoph Treude, Raula Gaikovina Kula

arxiv:2503.02817 v2 · 2025-03-04 · cs.SE

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KJWENCK5A6BWDGU5IZCFGXJUU3}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T11:13:22.064109Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

526c46895d0783619a9d4644535d34a6f0e945d52cdd997d4404014c889135a4

Aliases

arxiv: 2503.02817 · arxiv_version: 2503.02817v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2503.02817 · pith_short_12: KJWENCK5A6BW · pith_short_16: KJWENCK5A6BWDGU5 · pith_short_8: KJWENCK5

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/KJWENCK5A6BWDGU5IZCFGXJUU3 \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 526c46895d0783619a9d4644535d34a6f0e945d52cdd997d4404014c889135a4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9d19c0955f7ace8d243712340ae54130c06276592e75bd24f200c0f38e92519c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2025-03-04T17:44:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "18047ca0e984ee90c86bc2f1006f0c18689411c5446bb3bde0887fe43ba39ced"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2503.02817",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}