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style="width:55%;">2.0</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:45%;"><a href="/wiki/Publishing" title="Publishing">Publisher</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="width:55%;">The Apache Software Foundation</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:45%;">Published</th><td class="infobox-data" style="width:55%;">January 2004<span class="noprint">; 20 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">2004-01</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:45%;"><a href="/wiki/Software_Package_Data_Exchange" title="Software Package Data Exchange">SPDX</a> identifier</th><td class="infobox-data" style="width:55%;">Apache-2.0<br />Apache-1.1<br />Apache-1.0</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:45%;"><a href="/wiki/Debian_Free_Software_Guidelines" class="mw-redirect" title="Debian Free Software Guidelines">Debian FSG compatible</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="width:55%;">Yes<sup id="cite_ref-dfsglist_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dfsglist-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:45%;"><a href="/wiki/Free_Software_Foundation" title="Free Software Foundation">FSF</a> <a href="/wiki/Comparison_of_free_and_open-source_software_licences#Approvals" class="mw-redirect" title="Comparison of free and open-source software licences">approved</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="width:55%;">Yes<sup id="cite_ref-fsflist_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fsflist-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:45%;"><a href="/wiki/Open_Source_Initiative" title="Open Source Initiative">OSI</a> <a href="/wiki/Comparison_of_free_and_open-source_software_licences#Approvals" class="mw-redirect" title="Comparison of free and open-source software licences">approved</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="width:55%;">Yes<sup id="cite_ref-osi_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-osi-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:45%;"><a href="/wiki/GPL_compatible" class="mw-redirect" title="GPL compatible">GPL compatible</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="width:55%;">Only version 2.0 is compatible with only <a href="/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License#Version_3" title="GNU General Public License">GPLv3</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-fsflist_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fsflist-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:45%;"><a href="/wiki/Copyleft" title="Copyleft">Copyleft</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="width:55%;">No</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:45%;"><a href="/wiki/GPL_linking_exception" title="GPL linking exception">Linking from code with a different licence</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="width:55%;">Yes</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:45%;">Website</th><td class="infobox-data" style="width:55%;"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.apache.org/licenses">www<wbr />.apache<wbr />.org<wbr />/licenses</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Apache License</b> is a <a href="/wiki/Permissive_free_software_licence" class="mw-redirect" title="Permissive free software licence">permissive</a> free software license written by the <a href="/wiki/Apache_Software_Foundation" class="mw-redirect" title="Apache Software Foundation">Apache Software Foundation</a> (ASF).<sup id="cite_ref-nmr-permissive_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nmr-permissive-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span 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The ASF and its projects release their software products under the Apache License. The license is also used by many non-ASF projects. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Apache_License&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Beginning in 1995, the Apache Group (later the Apache Software Foundation) released successive versions of the <a href="/wiki/Apache_HTTP_Server" title="Apache HTTP Server">Apache HTTP Server</a>. Its initial license was essentially the same as the <a href="/wiki/Original_BSD_license" class="mw-redirect" title="Original BSD license">original 4-clause BSD license</a>, with only the names of the organizations changed, and with an additional clause forbidding derivative works from bearing the Apache name. </p><p>In July 1999, the <a href="/wiki/Berkeley_Software_Distribution" title="Berkeley Software Distribution">Berkeley Software Distribution</a> accepted the argument put to it by the <a href="/wiki/Free_Software_Foundation" title="Free Software Foundation">Free Software Foundation</a> and retired their <i>advertising clause</i> (clause 3) to form the new 3-clause BSD license. In 2000, Apache did likewise and created the Apache License 1.1, in which derived products are no longer required to include attribution in their advertising materials, only in their documentation. 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