Always very reluctant to touch a file containing a list of names, but this...

                        http://httpd.apache.org/

                             February 2002

The Apache Project is a collaborative software development effort aimed

at creating a robust, commercial-grade, featureful, and freely-available

source code implementation of an HTTP (Web) server.  The project is

jointly managed by a group of volunteers located around the world, using

the Internet and the Web to communicate, plan, and develop the server and

its related documentation.  These volunteers are known as the Apache Group.

In addition, hundreds of users have contributed ideas, code, and

documentation to the project.  This file is intended to briefly describe

the history of the Apache Group, recognize the many contributors, and

explain how you can join the fun too.

The Apache HTTP Server Project is a collaborative software development effort

aimed at creating a robust, commercial-grade, featureful, and freely-available

source code implementation of an HTTP (Web) server. The project is jointly 

managed by a group of volunteers located around the world, using the Internet

and the Web to communicate, plan, and develop the server and its related 

documentation. In addition, hundreds of users have contributed ideas, code, 

and documentation to the project.

This file is intended to briefly describe the history of the Apache Group (as 

it was called in the early days), recognize the many contributors, and explain

how you can join the fun too.

In February of 1995, the most popular server software on the Web was the

public domain HTTP daemon developed by Rob McCool at the National Center

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Current Apache Group in alphabetical order as of 2 April 2002:

   Greg Ames              IBM Corporation, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA

   Aaron Bannert          California

   Brian Behlendorf       Collab.Net, California 

   Ken Coar               IBM Corporation, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA

   Mark J. Cox            Red Hat, UK

   Lars Eilebrecht        Freelance Consultant, Munich, Germany 

   Ralf S. Engelschall    Cable & Wireless Deutschland, Munich, Germany

   Justin Erenkrantz      University of California, Irvine

   Roy T. Fielding        Day Software, California 

   Tony Finch             Covalent Technologies, California

   Dean Gaudet            Transmeta Corporation, California 

   Dirk-Willem van Gulik  Covalent Technologies, California 

   Brian Havard           Australia

   Ian Holsman            CNET, California

   Ben Hyde               Gensym, Massachusetts

   Jim Jagielski          jaguNET Access Services, Maryland 

   Manoj Kasichainula     Collab.Net, California

   Alexei Kosut           Stanford University, California 

   Martin Kraemer         Munich, Germany

   Ben Laurie             Freelance Consultant, UK 

   Rasmus Lerdorf         Yahoo!, California

   Daniel Lopez Ridruejo  Covalent Technologies, California

   Doug MacEachern        Covalent Technologies, California

   Aram W. Mirzadeh       CableVision, New York 

   Chuck Murcko           The Topsail Group, Pennsylvania 

   Brian Pane             CNET Networks, California

   Sameer Parekh          California 

   David Reid             UK

   William A. Rowe, Jr.   Covalent, Illinois

   Wilfredo Sanchez       Apple Computer, California

   Cliff Skolnick         California

   Marc Slemko            Canada 

   Joshua Slive           Canada

   Greg Stein             California

   Bill Stoddard          IBM Corporation, Research Triangle Park, NC

   Sander Striker         The Netherlands

   Paul Sutton            Seattle

   Randy Terbush          Covalent Technologies, California 

   Jeff Trawick           IBM Corporation, Research Triangle Park, NC

   Cliff Woolley          University of Virginia

Apache Emeritus (old group members now off doing other things)

   Ryan Bloom             California

   Rob Hartill            Internet Movie DB, UK 

   David Robinson         Cambridge University, UK

   Robert S. Thau         MIT, Massachusetts

   Andrew Wilson          Freelance Consultant, UK 

The current project management committe of the Apache HTTP Server

project (as of March, 2011) is:

    Aaron Bannert       André Malo          Astrid Stolper

    Ben Laurie          Bojan Smojver       Brad Nicholes

    Brian Havard        Brian McCallister   Chris Darroch

    Chuck Murcko        Colm MacCárthaigh   Dirk-Willem van Gulik

    Doug MacEachern     Eric Covener        Erik Abele

    Graham Dumpleton    Graham Leggett      Greg Ames

    Greg Stein          Gregory Trubetskoy  Guenter Knauf

    Issac Goldstand     Jeff Trawick        Jim Gallacher

    Jim Jagielski       Joe Orton           Joe Schaefer

    Joshua Slive        Justin Erenkrantz   Ken Coar

    Lars Eilebrecht     Manoj Kasichainula  Marc Slemko

    Mark J. Cox         Martin Kraemer      Maxime Petazzoni

    Nick Kew            Nicolas Lehuen      Noirin Shirley

    Paul Querna         Philip M. Gollucci  Ralf S. Engelschall

    Randy Kobes         Rasmus Lerdorf      Rich Bowen

    Roy T. Fielding     Rüdiger Plüm        Sander Striker

    Sander Temme        Stefan Fritsch      Tony Stevenson

    Wilfredo Sanchez    William A. Rowe Jr.

    Yoshiki Hayashi     Victor J. Orlikowski

Other major contributors

Hundreds of people have made individual contributions to the Apache

project. Patch contributors are listed in the CHANGES file.

Frequent contributors have included Petr Lampa, Tom Tromey, James H.

Cloos Jr., Ed Korthof, Nathan Neulinger, Jason S. Clary, Jason A. Dour,

Michael Douglass, Tony Sanders, Brian Tao, Michael Smith, Adam Sussman,

Nathan Schrenk, Matthew Gray, and John Heidemann.

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Why Apache Is Free

Why The Apache HTTP Server Is Free

Apache exists to provide a robust and commercial-grade reference

Apache HTTP Server exists to provide a robust and commercial-grade reference

implementation of the HTTP protocol. It must remain a platform upon which

individuals and institutions can build reliable systems, both for

experimental purposes and for mission-critical purposes. We believe the

robust reference implementation of the protocol, available absolutely for

free to all companies, is a tremendously good thing. 

Furthermore, Apache is an organic entity; those who benefit from it

Furthermore, Apache httpd is an organic entity; those who benefit from it

by using it often contribute back to it by providing feature enhancements,

bug fixes, and support for others in public newsgroups. The amount of

effort expended by any particular individual is usually fairly light, but

free" it would suffer tremendously, even if that money were spent on a

real development team.

We want to see Apache used very widely -- by large companies, small

We want to see Apache httpd used very widely -- by large companies, small

companies, research institutions, schools, individuals, in the intranet

environment, everywhere -- even though this may mean that companies who

could afford commercial software, and would pay for it without blinking,

might get a "free ride" by using Apache.  We would even be happy if some

commercial software companies completely dropped their own HTTP server

development plans and used Apache as a base, with the proper attributions

might get a "free ride" by using Apache httpd . We would even be happy if 

some commercial software companies completely dropped their own HTTP server

development plans and used Apache httpd as a base, with the proper attributions

as described in the LICENSE file.

Thanks for using Apache!

Thanks for using Apache HTTP Server!