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About the Foundation¶ The ASF is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization run almost exclusively by volunteers who oversee hundreds of projects. Our sponsors enable us to maintain the infrastructure needed to support them.
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The Apache Software Foundation is a decentralized open source community of developers. The software they produce is distributed under the terms of the Apache License, a permissive open-source license for free and open-source software (FOSS).
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) exists to provide software for the public good. We believe in the power of community over code, known as The Apache Way. Thousands of people around the world contribute to ASF open source projects every day.
Software for the Public Good¶ ASF’s open source software is used ubiquitously around the world with more than 8,400 committers contributing to more than 320 active projects. See All Projects Contribute
Evolving from the original eight developers (collectively known as "the Apache Group") who contributed code enhancements to the NCSA daemon Web server, the ASF was incorporated in 1999 as a U.S. 501 (c) (3) not-for-profit organization.
The Apache HTTP Server Project is a collaborative software development effort aimed at creating a robust, commercial-grade, featureful, and freely-available source code implementation of an HTTP (Web) server.
The Apache HTTP Server ("httpd") was launched in 1995 and it has been the most popular web server on the Internet since April 1996. It has celebrated its 25th birthday as a project in February 2020. The Apache HTTP Server is a project of The Apache Software Foundation.
