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The Apache Software Foundation uses various licenses to distribute software and documentation, and to accept regular contributions from individuals and corporations and larger grants of existing software products.
These licenses help us achieve our goal of providing reliable and long-lived software products through collaborative, open-source software development. In all cases, contributors retain full rights to use their original contributions for any other purpose outside of Apache while providing the ASF and its projects the right to distribute and build upon their work within Apache.
All software produced by The Apache Software Foundation or any of its projects or subjects is licensed according to the terms of the documents listed below.
For information regarding our CLAs, please consult the ASF Contributor License Agreements page.
For answers to frequently asked licensing questions, please consult our Licensing Frequently Asked Questions page. For historical context for the creation of the Apache-2.0 license see the License History.
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