Editing The Apache Software Foundation (section)

==Projects==
{{See also|List of Apache Software Foundation projects}}
Apache divides its [[software development]] activities into separate semi-autonomous areas called "top-level projects" (formally known as a "Project Management Committee" in the bylaws<ref name=bylaws>
{{cite web |title=Bylaws of The Apache Software Foundation |url=https://www.apache.org/foundation/bylaws.html |publisher=Apache Software Foundation |access-date=August 10, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725012133/http://apache.org/foundation/bylaws.html |archive-date=July 25, 2011  |url-status=live}}
</ref>), some of which have a number of sub-projects. Unlike some other organizations that host [[Free and open-source software|FOSS]] projects, before a project is hosted at Apache it has to be licensed to the ASF with a grant or contributor agreement.<ref name=licenses>
{{cite web |title=Licenses |url=https://www.apache.org/licenses/#clas |publisher=Apache Software Foundation |access-date=August 10, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725011702/http://www.apache.org/licenses/ |archive-date=July 25, 2011  |url-status=live}}
</ref> In this way, the ASF gains the necessary intellectual property rights for the development and distribution of all its projects.<ref>{{cite book |last=St. Amant |first=Kirk |author2=Brian Still |title=Handbook of research on open source software: technological, economic, and social perspectives |publisher=Idea Group Inc (IGI) |year=2007 |pages=217–219 |isbn=978-1-59140-999-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=75KT6GdcWbYC&q=%22apache+foundation%22&pg=PA218 |access-date=December 4, 2020 |archive-date=May 31, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240531035524/https://books.google.com/books?id=75KT6GdcWbYC&q=%22apache+foundation%22&pg=PA218 |url-status=live }}</ref>