Title: Apache Creadur # Welcome to Apache Creadur ##About Apache Creadur This project started as just [Rat][1], a release auditing tool good with licenses, coded in Java with plugins for [Ant][2] and [Maven][3]. After adding some new tricks, it became clear that creating one uber-tool in one language is less useful than collecting a suite: * [Apache Rat][4]™ audits license headers — the boilerplate text needed in most source files. Coded in Java, it runs from the command line with plugins for Maven and Ant. Download [the latest release][6] or read the [release notes][7]. * [Apache Tentacles][8]™ helps to audit in bulk components uploaded to a staging repository. Coded in Java, it runs from the command line. * [Apache Whisker][9]™ assists assembled applications maintain correct legal documentation. Coded in Java, it runs from the command or as a plugin for Maven. ### News * 10 June 2016 — [Apache Rat][10] 0.12 Released ([release notes][11]) * 25 August 2014 — [Apache Rat][10] 0.11 Released ([release notes][11]) * 5 September 2013 — [Apache Rat][10] 0.10 Released ([release notes][11]) * Summer 2013 — welcome to [Manuel Suárez Sánchez][12], our 2013 [Google Summer of Code][13] student * 19 June 2013 — Apache Rat 0.9 Released * 26-28 February 2013 — [ApacheCon North America][14] was held in Portland, Oregon * 5–8 November 2012 — [ApacheCon Europe][15] was held in Sinsheim, Germany ###Learn More About Licensing Some recommended resources * [Open Source Licensing][16] by Lawrence Rosen * [Software Freedom Law Center][17] [publications][18] * [International Free and Open Source Software Law Review][19] * [The International Free and Open Source Software Law Book][20] --- # The Apache Creadur Project Apache Creadur is a top level [project][21] of the [Apache Software Foundation][22] (ASF), a [non-profit][23] [corporation][24] [dedicated][25] to the creation of [open source software][26] and distributed to the public at no cost. Apache develops software with a collaborative, consensus based [process][27] based on self-organising [community-focused][28] projects. ## License Apache (in general) and Creadur (in particular) licenses its software to the public under the [open source][29] [Apache License, Version 2.0][30]. Not every (third party) artifact included in an Apache distribution is covered by this license but [policy][31] allows only compatible licenses that are [well reported][32]. A [system][33] of [contributor license agreements][34] and [software grants][35] ties everything together from the legal perspective. Start [here][36] to learn more about licensing, or browse [Apache Legal Affairs][37]. ## Reports Each ASF project [reports][38] regularly to the [board][39], focusing on the health of the community. For Creadur, quarterly reports are due in February, May, August and November. However - as a recent graduate - reports are more regularly in 2012. The official reports are found in the board minutes but drafts are [here][40]. --- We maintain this page using the Apache CMS. See - [CMS Reference][41] and - [CMS 2010][42] for more about this CMS. Some tools in the suite use the CMS directly as well. Others sub-sites are generated using Maven then checked in. [1]: http://code.google.com/p/arat/ [2]: http://ant.apache.org [3]: http://maven.apache.org [4]: rat [5]: rat [6]: rat/download_rat.cgi [7]: release-notes/rat.txt [8]: tentacles [9]: whisker [10]: rat [11]: release-notes/rat.txt [12]: https://github.com/elnuma/ [13]: https://developers.google.com/open-source/soc/ [14]: http://na.apachecon.com [15]: http://www.apachecon.eu/ [16]: http://www.rosenlaw.com/oslbook.htm [17]: http://www.softwarefreedom.org/ [18]: http://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources [19]: http://www.ifosslr.org/ [20]: http://ifosslawbook.org [21]: http://projects.apache.org/ [22]: http://www.apache.org [23]: http://www.apache.org/foundation/faq.html#what [24]: http://www.apache.org/foundation/faq.html#is-ASF-a-corporation [25]: http://www.apache.org/foundation/faq.html#why [26]: http://www.opensource.org/ [27]: http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html [28]: http://community.apache.org/ [29]: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/Apache-2.0 [30]: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html [31]: http://www.apache.org/legal/ [32]: http://creadur.apache.org/whisker/ [33]: http://www.apache.org/licenses/ [34]: http://www.apache.org/licenses/index.html#clas [35]: http://www.apache.org/licenses/index.html#grants [36]: http://www.apache.org/foundation/license-faq.html [37]: http://www.apache.org/legal/ [38]: http://community.apache.org/boardreport.html [39]: http://www.apache.org/foundation/board/ [40]: boardreport.html [41]: http://www.apache.org/dev/cmsref.html [42]: http://wiki.apache.org/general/ApacheCms2010