bigcode-dataset

license

Apache-2.0(OSI)

source

public(bigcode-project/bigcode-dataset)

governance

BigCode

core-gated

ungated

Fully OSI-licensed (Apache-2.0), full source public.

• https://github.com/bigcode-project/bigcode-dataset/blob/main/LICENSE recorded 2026-08-13

  Apache License Version 2.0 text

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bigcode-project/bigcode-dataset/main/README.md recorded 2026-08-13

  README documents the whole pipeline building and installing from the published repo; no paid tier, enterprise edition or license key appears anywhere in it, so nothing is withheld from the source

497 GitHub stars on bigcode-project/bigcode-dataset, which bands at <1K stars, level 1 on the stars fallback scale. That scale caps at level 3, because a star is not a use. The repo has been dormant since 2024. As the pipeline behind The Stack and StarCoder it matters more than its star count suggests, but importance is not adoption, and no download, install or customer figure is published for this product, so stars remain the only honest signal and the level is directional.

• https://api.github.com/repos/bigcode-project/bigcode-dataset recorded 2026-08-12

  stargazers_count = 497 for bigcode-project/bigcode-dataset

Solid code-corpus curation coverage; specialized to code, not actively developed.

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bigcode-project/bigcode-dataset/main/README.md recorded 2026-08-13

  README lists language selection, PII detection and anonymization, decontamination and the line-length/alphanumeric quality filters used for The Stack and StarCoder