Author: buildbot
Date: Fri Mar 7 13:25:32 2014
New Revision: 900453
Log:
Staging update by buildbot for community
Modified:
websites/staging/community/trunk/content/ (props changed)
websites/staging/community/trunk/content/projectIndependence.html
Propchange: websites/staging/community/trunk/content/
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to share these ideas or improvements, ensuring that the actual product they
are using
is clearly branded as coming from Apache ensures that they are likely to
contribute
those ideas and improvements back to Apache and our projects.</p>
+<p>The ASF welcomes third parties who build software that builds atop,
improves,
+plugs into, or works with our many Apache products. However any such third
party software
+product must be clearly branded as such, and must follow our <a
href="http://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/";>formal trademark policy</a>.
+In this way, users clearly understand the different sources for software
products such as
+Apache Foo (from the ASF) versus BigCo SuperThing, Powered By Apache Foo (from
BigCo).</p>
<h2 id="apache-projects-are-non-commercial">Apache projects are
non-commercial</h2>
<p>The ASFâs mission is to produce software for the public good. All <a
href="http://www.apache.org/free/";>Apache software is always available for
free</a>, and solely under the Apache License. While our projects manage the
technical implementation of their individual software products independently,
Apache software is released from the ASF, and is always meant to serve the
public good.</p>
<p>Weâre happy to have third parties, including for-profit corporations,
take our software and use it for their own purposes â even when in some cases
it may technically compete with Apache software. However it is important in
these cases to ensure that the brand and reputation of the Apache project is
not misused by third parties for their own purposes. It is important for the
longevity and community health of our projects that they get the appropriate
credit for producing our freely available software.</p>
