Editing Apache License (section)

==History==
Beginning in 1995, the Apache Group (later the Apache Software Foundation) released successive versions of the [[Apache HTTP Server]]. Its initial license was essentially the same as the [[Original BSD license|original 4-clause BSD license]], with only the names of the organizations changed, and with an additional clause forbidding derivative works from bearing the Apache name.

In July 1999, the [[Berkeley Software Distribution]] accepted the argument put to it by the [[Free Software Foundation]] and retired their ''advertising clause'' (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. Individual packages licensed under the 1.1 version may have used different wording due to varying requirements for attribution or mark identification, but the binding terms were the same.

In January 2004, ASF decided to depart from the BSD model and produced the Apache License 2.0. The stated goals of the license included making it easier for non-ASF projects to use, improving [[License compatibility|compatibility]] with [[GNU General Public License|GPL]]-based software, allowing the license to be included by reference instead of listed in every file, clarifying the license on contributions, and requiring a patent license on contributions that necessarily infringe a contributor's own patents.<ref name="Apache licenses">{{cite web|url=https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0|title=Apache License, Version 2.0|access-date=15 July 2019| publisher= Apache Software Foundation }}</ref> This license requires the preservation of the [[copyright]] notice and [[disclaimer]].