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| <h1 class="content-header header-section1" id="history" itemprop="headline">Project history</h1> |
| </div></div><p>FreeMarker wasn't started at the Apache Software Foundation; |
| here's the legal history of the project:</p><ul> |
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| <p>FreeMarker 1 was licensed under LGPL, and was copyright by |
| Benjamin Geer.</p> |
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| <p>By community consensus, FreeMarker 2 was released under a more |
| liberal BSD-style license. Benjamin Geer remained the copyright |
| holder of FreeMarker versions 2.0.x and 2.1.x. It was decided that, |
| since we did not at that point have a juridical entity (such as the |
| Apache Foundation) to play this role, that Benjamin Geer would |
| continue to be the sole copyright holder, make any future license |
| changes or clarifications simpler.</p> |
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| <p>As of FreeMarker 2.2, the copyright holder of the FreeMarker |
| codebase was the Visigoth Software Society (VSS), a non-profit |
| association based in Spain, and co-founded by Jonathan Revusky in |
| December of 2002. Benjamin Geer graciously agreed to cede the |
| copyright to VSS on the understanding that it would remain available |
| under a liberal open-source license. The terms of the license remain |
| the same.</p> |
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| |
| <li> |
| <p>As of FreeMarker 2.3.21 (released at 2014-10-12), the license |
| has changed to the Apache License, Version 2.0, and the owner has |
| changed from Visigoth Software Society to the three main FreeMarker |
| 2 developers, Attila Szegedi, Daniel Dekany, and Jonathan Revusky. |
| The change was needed because the old BSD-style license wasn't OSI |
| approved, and because of the inactivity of the Visigoth Software |
| Society association.</p> |
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| <p>Around 2015-07-01, FreeMarker was voted in into the <a href="http://incubator.apache.org/">Apache Incubator</a>, |
| and the project (all code from which the releases and the Web site |
| are created, along with the right for using the |
| "FreeMarker" product name) was granted to the Apache |
| Software Foundation by the earlier owners. The license remains |
| Apache License, Version 2.0. In 2015-09-02, the main code base was |
| imported from GitHub into the Apache Software Foundation |
| infrastructure, where development continues.</p> |
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| <p>On 2018-03-21 FreeMarker has graduated from the <a href="http://incubator.apache.org/">Apache Incubator</a> to |
| a top level project.</p> |
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| </ul><p>Development history, key contributors:</p><ul> |
| <li> |
| <p>Later 1999, FreeMarker 1 has appeared on SourceForge.net. It |
| was originally written by Benjamin Geer and Mike Bayer. They defined |
| the basic syntax, and more importantly, the philosophy of the tool |
| that is carried on in FreeMarker 2. Significant contributions to |
| FreeMarker 1 were made by Nicholas Cull, Holger Arendt and |
| others.</p> |
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| <p>In early 2002, Jonathan Revusky rewrote the core |
| (parser/compiler) code using a popular parser generator tool, |
| JavaCC. This was really the basis of FreeMarker 2, which, though was |
| initially largely backward compatible with FreeMarker 1, is |
| virtually a complete rewrite. <a href="http://www.szegedi.org/">Attila Szegedi</a> has made |
| significant contributions to the FreeMarker 2. Besides refactoring |
| and optimizing some of the core API's, Attila is the main author of |
| the date/time support, <code class="inline-code">freemarker.ext.*</code> packages |
| responsible for JavaBeans, Jython, and XML mappings, as well as for |
| HTTP servlet, JSP and Ant integration. Dániel Dékány is the main |
| author of the documentation, and has influenced many new features of |
| FreeMarker 2, and has helped in maintenance work. Many ideas and |
| feedback were provided by the various participants on the |
| freemarker-devel and freemarker-user mailing lists, like <a href="http://sixlegs.com/">Chris Nokleberg</a>, <a href="http://stephan.notatoaster.org/">Stephan Mueller</a>, |
| and many others.</p> |
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| <p>Since 2011, Dániel Dékány does most of the maintenance work |
| and new features.</p> |
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