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The following pages provide information for users of Apache Products (i.e. software products from the ASF).
We appreciate feedback on our licenses, agreements and processes (see communications). Sadly, we are unable to offer legal opinions or advice to the public.
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The Legal Affairs Committee was established in March 2007 and is responsible for establishing, and managing, legal policies based on the advice of legal counsel and the interests of the Foundation. It reports to the board each month.
Questions for the Legal Affairs Committee should be raised on LEGAL JIRA space.
Most discussions are held on the public legal-discuss@ mailing list. See the legal-discuss@ archives for previous discussions.
The Legal Affairs Committee (including VP of Legal Affairs) is staffed exclusively by volunteers and is leveraging a pro-bono legal counsel. This means that while most requests are typically resolved in a matter of few days, sometimes non-urgent requests can take longer. We will try to acknowledge your request within a couple of days, but the actual resolution may take much longer. For truly urgent matters always make sure to contact vp-legal@apache.org directly.
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