1 <!doctype html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> 2 <html> 3 <head> 4 <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> 5 <meta http-equiv="content-style-type" content="text/css"> 6 <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css"> 7 <title>ProGuard License</title> 8 </head> 9 <body> 10 11 <h2>License</h2> 12 13 <b>ProGuard</b> is free. You can use it freely for processing your 14 applications, commercial or not. Your code obviously remains yours after 15 having been processed, and its license can remain the same. 16 <p> 17 18 <b>ProGuard</b> itself is copyrighted, but its distribution license provides 19 you with some rights for modifying and redistributing its code and its 20 documentation. More specifically, <b>ProGuard</b> is distributed under the 21 terms of the <a href="GPL.html">GNU General Public License</a> (GPL), version 22 2, as published by the <a href="http://www.fsf.org/" target="other">Free 23 Software Foundation</a> (FSF). In short, this means that you may freely 24 redistribute the program, modified or as is, on the condition that you make 25 the complete source code available as well. If you develop a program that is 26 linked with 27 <b>ProGuard</b>, the program as a whole has to be distributed at no charge 28 under the GPL. I am granting a <a href="GPL_exception.html">special 29 exception</a> to the latter clause (in wording suggested by 30 the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl-faq.html#GPLIncompatibleLibs" 31 target="other">FSF</a>), for combinations with the following stand-alone 32 applications: Apache Ant, Apache Maven, the Eclipse ProGuardDT GUI, the 33 EclipseME JME IDE, the Sun NetBeans Java IDE, the Sun JME Wireless Toolkit, 34 and the Javaground Tools. 35 36 <p> 37 The <b>ProGuard user documentation</b> represents an important part of this 38 work. It may only be redistributed without changes, along with the unmodified 39 version of the code. 40 41 <hr> 42 <address> 43 Copyright © 2002-2009 44 <a href="http://www.graphics.cornell.edu/~eric/">Eric Lafortune</a>. 45 </address> 46 </body> 47 </html> 48
