Apache

Business type

OS Software

Service/product description

The Apache Software Foundation is a non-profit organization that provides support for the Apache community of open-source software projects. The Apache Software Foundation hosts over fifty open source projects that share a common culture of collaborative development. The foundation is best known for its Apache HTTP Server – a web server.  Apache is also a part of LAMP.

What does 'openness' mean in this case?

The Apache Software Foundation is a decentralized community of developers. The software they produce is distributed under the terms of the Apache License and is therefore free and open source software (FOSS). The Apache projects are characterized by a collaborative, consensus-based development process and an open and pragmatic software license. Each project is managed by a self-selected team of technical experts who are active contributors to the project.