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| title: History of Apache CloudStack |
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| # CloudStack's History |
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| The CloudStack project began as a project of a start-up known as VMOps in 2008. |
| The company eventually changed its name to Cloud.com, and it released much of |
| the source to CloudStack in May 2010 under the GNU General Public License |
| version 3 (GPLv3). |
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| Cloud.com was purchased in July 2011 by Citrix, and the remainder of |
| CloudStack's code was released (again, under the GPLv3) in August 2011. Citrix |
| released CloudStack 3.0 in early 2012. |
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| In April 2012, Citrix re-licensed CloudStack under the Apache Software License |
| 2.0 (ASLv2) and submitted CloudStack to the [Apache |
| Incubator](http://incubator.apache.org/). It was [accepted into the Incubator on |
| April 16th, 2012](http://incubator.apache.org/projects/cloudstack.html). |
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| After getting its infrastructure and community processes in place, CloudStack |
| made its first major release (4.0.0-incubating) from the Apache Incubator on |
| November 6th, 2012. The first minor release (4.0.1-incubating) came out on |
| February 12, 2013. |
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| Apache CloudStack graduated from the Incubator on March 20, 2013, and the |
| announcement was released on [March 25, |
| 2013](https://blogs.apache.org/cloudstack/entry/the_apache_software_foundation_announces). |
