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Obtaining an IDEA license

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How do ASF Committers obtain an IDEA license?

Please read the following blog post about JetBrains support for Apache - JetBrains Supports the Apache Software Foundation

How do I get a apache.org email account to get the IDEA License?

The Apache Software Foundation is an organization, and not a free web host. An ASF account is earned by making sustained and welcome contributions to a project. For more, see:

• http://apache.org/foundation/faq.html#joining
• http://apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html#meritocracy
• http://struts.apache.org/helping.html

The reason JetBrains (among others) give committers licenses is because we have earned them by helping to create open source products, many of which JetBrains uses internally.