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<div id="content" class="grid_12 omega"><div class="section-content"><h1 id="welcome-to-apache-creadur">Welcome to Apache Creadur</h1>
<h2 id="about-apache-creadur">About Apache Creadur</h2>
<p>This project started as just <a href="https://code.google.com/p/arat/">Rat</a>, a release auditing tool good with licenses, coded in Java with plugins for <a href="https://ant.apache.org">Ant</a>
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<a href="https://maven.apache.org">Maven</a>. After adding some new tricks, it became clear that creating one uber-tool in one language is less useful than collecting a suite: </p>
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<li><a href="rat">Apache Rat</a>™ 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 <a href="rat/download_rat.cgi">the latest release</a> or read the <a href="release-notes/rat.txt">release notes</a>.</li>
<li><a href="tentacles">Apache Tentacles</a>™ helps to audit in bulk components uploaded to a staging repository. Coded in Java, it runs from the command line.</li>
<li><a href="whisker">Apache Whisker</a>™ assists assembled applications maintain correct legal documentation. Coded in Java, it runs from the command line or as a plugin for Maven. </li>
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<h3 id="version-history">Version history</h3>
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<li>2024-11 — The upcoming release of <a href="rat017">Apache Rat 0.17</a> will bring exciting new functionality - feel free to take a look and give feedback!</li>
<li>2024-01-28 — <a href="rat">Apache Rat</a> 0.16.1 released - (<a href="release-notes/RELEASE-NOTES-0161.txt">release notes</a>)</li>
<li>2024-01-11 — Note: Apache Rat 0.16 introduced a new way to define custom licenses - please follow discussions at <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RAT-343" target="_blank">RAT-343</a> how to circumvent problems, as the PMC prepares a new 0.16.1-release.</li>
<li>2024-01-08 — <a href="rat">Apache Rat</a> 0.16 released - (<a href="release-notes/RELEASE-NOTES-016.txt">release notes</a>)</li>
<li>2022-10-20 — <a href="tentacles">Apache Tentacles</a> 0.1 released</li>
<li>2022-09-17 — <a href="rat">Apache Rat</a> 0.15 released - (<a href="release-notes/RELEASE-NOTES-015.txt">release notes</a>)</li>
<li>2022-05-28 — <a href="rat">Apache Rat</a> 0.14 released - (<a href="release-notes/RELEASE-NOTES-014.txt">release notes</a>)</li>
<li>2018-10-13 — <a href="rat">Apache Rat</a> 0.13 released (<a href="release-notes/rat.txt">release notes</a>)</li>
<li>2016-06-10 — <a href="rat">Apache Rat</a> 0.12 released (<a href="release-notes/rat.txt">release notes</a>)</li>
<li>2014-08-25 — <a href="rat">Apache Rat</a> 0.11 released (<a href="release-notes/rat.txt">release notes</a>)</li>
<li>2013-09-05 — <a href="rat">Apache Rat</a> 0.10 released (<a href="release-notes/rat.txt">release notes</a>)</li>
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<li><a href="https://communityovercode.org/">CommunityOverCode</a> ‐ formerly known as ApacheCon‐ is held in various locations around the globe</li>
<li>Summer 2013 — welcome to <a href="https://github.com/elnuma/">Manuel Suárez Sánchez</a>, our 2013 <a href="https://developers.google.com/open-source/soc/">Google Summer of Code</a> student </li>
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<h3 id="learn-more-about-licensing">Learn More About Licensing</h3>
<p>Some recommended resources</p>
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<li><a href="https://www.rosenlaw.com/oslbook.htm">Open Source Licensing</a> by Lawrence Rosen</li></li>
<li><a href="https://www.softwarefreedom.org/">Software Freedom Law Center</a> <a href="https://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources">publications</a></li>
<li><a href="https://jolts.world/">JOLTS. The Journal of Open Law, Technology & Society</a></li>
<li><a href="https://ifosslawbook.org">The International Free and Open Source Software Law Book</a></li>
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<h1 id="the-apache-creadur-project">The Apache Creadur Project</h1>
<p>Apache Creadur is a top level <a href="https://projects.apache.org/">project</a> of the <a href="https://www.apache.org">Apache Software Foundation</a> (ASF), a <a href="https://www.apache.org/foundation/faq.html#what">non-profit</a> <a href="https://www.apache.org/foundation/faq.html#is-ASF-a-corporation">corporation</a> <a href="https://www.apache.org/foundation/faq.html#why">dedicated</a> to the creation of <a href="https://www.opensource.org/">open source software</a> and distributed to the public at no cost. Apache develops software with a collaborative, consensus based <a href="https://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html">process</a> based on self-organising <a href="https://community.apache.org/">community-focused</a> projects.</p>
<h2 id="creadur-meaning">What does Creadur mean?</h2>
<p>The name Creadur comes from Welsh and means: living thing, creature or one who owes his fortune and living to another. This fits quite well as Creadur is there to help you and your project.</p>
<h2 id="license">License</h2>
<p>Apache (in general) and Creadur (in particular) licenses its software to the public under the <a href="https://www.opensource.org/licenses/Apache-2.0">open source</a> <a href="https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html">Apache License, Version 2.0</a>. Not every (third party) artifact included in an Apache distribution is covered by this license but <a href="https://www.apache.org/legal/">policy</a> allows only compatible licenses that are <a href="https://creadur.apache.org/whisker/">well reported</a>. A <a href="https://www.apache.org/licenses/">system</a> of <a href="https://www.apache.org/licenses/index.html#clas">contributor license agreements</a> and <a href="https://www.apache.org/licenses/index.html#grants">software grants</a> ties everything together from the legal perspective. </p>
<p>Start <a href="https://www.apache.org/foundation/license-faq.html">here</a> to learn more about licensing, or browse <a href="https://www.apache.org/legal/">Apache Legal Affairs</a>. </p>
<h2 id="reports">Reports</h2>
<p>Each ASF project <a href="https://community.apache.org/boardreport.html">reports</a> regularly to the <a href="https://www.apache.org/foundation/board/">board</a>, focusing on the health of the community. For Creadur, quarterly reports are due in February, May, August and November.</p>
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