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| title: Why Apache Extras? | |
| date: 2010-12-15 | |
| blog_post: true | |
| published_by: rgardler | |
| tags: ["blog"] | |
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| This is <em>historical</em> content, not relevant anymore but kept here as an archive. | |
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| All Apache projects use the same pragmatic software license, the Apache License v2. However, we recognise that there are | |
| other FOSS licences out there, some of which are incompatible with the Apache License v2. | |
| Code under these licenses cannot be hosted on Apache servers, but people sometimes choose to, or are required to, use | |
| them. | |
| Until the launch of [apache-extras](http://apache-extras.org/) these projects had no a single home to go to. They were | |
| spread across all of the various hosting platforms. This made it difficult for communities to cluster around related | |
| technologies. For us this was a problem since we believe strong collaborative communities are the key to successful open | |
| source software. | |
| Apache Extras provides these projects with a way to clearly signal their relationship to one or more Apache project | |
| community. This will help them attract developer communities to their own projects. |