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     22 <h2>License</h2>
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     24 <b>ProGuard</b> is free. You can use it freely for processing your
     25 applications, commercial or not. Your code obviously remains yours after
     26 having been processed, and its license can remain the same.
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     29 <b>ProGuard</b> itself is copyrighted, but its distribution license provides
     30 you with some rights for modifying and redistributing its code and its
     31 documentation. More specifically, <b>ProGuard</b> is distributed under the
     32 terms of the <a href="GPL.html">GNU General Public License</a> (GPL), version
     33 2, as published by the <a href="http://www.fsf.org/" target="other">Free
     34 Software Foundation</a> (FSF). In short, this means that you may freely
     35 redistribute the program, modified or as is, on the condition that you make
     36 the complete source code available as well. If you develop a program that is
     37 linked with
     38 <b>ProGuard</b>, the program as a whole has to be distributed at no charge
     39 under the GPL. I am granting a <a href="GPL_exception.html">special
     40 exception</a> to the latter clause (in wording suggested by
     41 the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl-faq.html#GPLIncompatibleLibs"
     42 target="other">FSF</a>), for combinations with the following stand-alone
     43 applications: Apache Ant, Apache Maven, the Google Android SDK, the Eclipse
     44 ProGuardDT GUI, the EclipseME JME IDE, the Oracle NetBeans Java IDE, the Oracle
     45 JME Wireless Toolkit, the Simple Build Tool for Scala, the NeoMAD Tools by
     46 Neomades, the Javaground Tools, and the Sanaware Tools.
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     49 The <b>ProGuard user documentation</b> represents an important part of this
     50 work. It may only be redistributed without changes, along with the unmodified
     51 version of the code.
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