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# The Legal Affairs Committee #

The Legal Affairs Committee is responsible for establishing and managing
legal policies based on the advice of legal counsel and the interests of
the Foundation

Legal Affairs Committee has been established in March 2007 with the purpose
to distribute the legal affairs workload to a coordinated group ASF
members, to assign responsibility for legal policy deliberation and
decision making to the same group under the supervision of the board, and
to provide a structured means of participation and familiarization for
those interested in taking over the Legal VP job one day.

# Purpose and Intended Audience #

This page provides a list of links to various ASF legal pages relevant both
to Apache project [users](#user-links) and [committers](#dev-links).

# Notification of Updates to this Page # {#updates}

Updates to this page are sent to the
[legal-discuss](http://www.apache.org/foundation/mailinglists.html#foundation-legal)
mailing list.

# Legal Information for Users of Apache Products # {#user-links}

-  [Apache Licenses](/licenses/) 

-  [Records of Incorporation and Tax Status](/foundation/records/) 

-  [Information on encryption within Apache products](/licenses/exports/) 

-  [Trademark and Logo Usage Guidelines](/foundation/marks/) 

# Legal Policies, Forms, and Information for Apache Committers # {#dev-links}

-  [Previously Asked Questions](/legal/resolved.html) 

-  [Issues List](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL) 

-  [Source Header and Copyright Notice Policy](/legal/src-headers.html) 

-  [Contributor License Agreements](/licenses/#clas) - [FAQ](/foundation/licence-FAQ.html)

-  [Handling Cryptography within an ASF Release](/dev/crypto.html) 

-  [legal-discuss
archives](http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-legal-discuss/) and
[list info](/foundation/mailinglists.html#foundation-legal) 

# Historical and background documents # {#background-links}

-  [Ramblings of an ASF VP of Legal Affairs](/legal/ramblings.html) 

-  [Drafted (and out of date) Third-Party Licensing
Policy](/legal/3party.html) 

-  [Legal Reports to ASF Board](/legal/reports.html) 

# Get in touch # {#get-in-touch}

If you want to propose changes or improvements to this documentation follow
[this guide](/dev/infra-site.html). If you already read the above
documentation and still have doubts or questions you can use these
channels:

- Submit issues to the Legal Affair Committee [JIRA
space](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL) 

- Post a message to the
[legal-discuss](http://www.apache.org/foundation/mailinglists.html#foundation-legal)
list

Apache appreciates feedback on our licenses, agreements and processes. Sadly, we are unable to offer legal opinions or advice to the public. For more general information on copyright, patent and trademark law 

  - the [Software Freedom Law Center][1] and
  - the [International Free and Open Source Software Law Review][2]
    
have special interests in open source software. Educational material on open source is available from

  - the [Open Source Initiative][3] and
  - [OSS Watch][4].


  [1]: http://www.softwarefreedom.org/
  [2]: http://www.ifosslr.org/
  [3]: http://www.opensource.org/osi-open-source-education
  [4]: http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/