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Apache LicenseThe Apache License (previously known as the "Apache Software License") is a software licensed authored by the Apache Software Foundation ("ASF"). The license is used for all software produced by the ASF including the popular Apache Web Server software, but there are also at least 1,000 non-ASF projects which are also available under the Apache License. The Apache License is quite a permissive license, and is not a copyleft license: it requires preservation of a copyright notice and a disclaimer, but allows use and distribution of the source code in both FLOSS and proprietary software. There have been several revisions of the Apache License:
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