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The Apache Announcements list contains news and announcements about the foundation and its projects. Announcements of major software releases, new projects, and other important news are included. Messages are posted only by the Foundation; there is no discussion.

The announce@ApacheCon.Com mailing list is used by the ASF conference planning committee to make announcements about conferences, conventions, and tradeshows in which the Foundation is participating. Messages are posted only by the Foundation; there is no discussion.

The community@apache.org mailing list is used by the participants in the Apache Software Foundation to discuss general topics of interest to the foundation. Participation in this list is open to everyone. Public archives are available of this list.

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The legal-discuss@apache.org is a forum for questions (even FAQs) that have a legal aspect to them. These questions may concern (for example) licensing, third party packages, contributor agreement questions and trademark issues. This list will build into an ad-hoc knowledge base about those thorny legal issues that most commonly effect Apache projects. Please keep speculation to a minimum and avoid making authoritative statements without genuine knowledge of the subject.

Volunteers willing to codify discussions into a FAQ will be welcomed.