Apache License
Version 2.0, January 2004
http://www.apache.org/licenses/

TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR USE, REPRODUCTION, AND DISTRIBUTION

1. Definitions.

"License" shall mean the terms and conditions for use, reproduction, and distribution as defined by Sections 1 through 9 of this document.

"Licensor" shall mean the copyright owner or entity authorized by the copyright owner that is granting the License.

Original Authors:

Damien Katz, Jan Lehnardt, Noah Slater, Christopher Lenz, J. Chris Anderson

Current committers:

Damien Katz

Original developer and remains the project lead.

Jan Lehnardt

Worked on the original UNIX port and now works on all ends in CouchDB.
He is a freelancing CouchDB consultant and gives presentations around the
world.

Noah Slater

Apache CouchDB, commonly referred to as CouchDB, is a free and open source document-oriented database written in the Erlang programming language. It is designed for local replication and to scale vertically along a wide range of devices.

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