1 <!doctype html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//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 Acknowledgements</title> 8 <script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript"> 9 <!-- 10 if (window.self==window.top) 11 window.top.location.replace("index.html#"+window.location.pathname+window.location.hash); 12 else { 13 var hash="#"+window.location.pathname.replace(window.top.location.pathname.replace("index.html", ""), ""); 14 if (window.top.location.hash!=hash) 15 window.top.location.hash=hash; 16 } 17 //--> 18 </script> 19 </head> 20 <body> 21 22 <h2>Acknowledgements</h2> 23 24 The first versions of <b>ProGuard</b> grew out of <b>RetroGuard</b>, which its 25 author Mark Welsh kindly made available under the GNU Lesser General Public 26 License. RetroGuard is a very nice piece of code, but it only performed 27 obfuscation. I started from the class file parsing code and wrote my own 28 shrinker, optimizer, obfuscator, and preverifier. As of version 4.0, all of the 29 original code has been rewritten, so the most obvious remaining similarity are 30 the program names. 31 <p> 32 33 Dirk Schnelle has contributed and maintained the first versions of the Ant 34 task. I have rewritten the implementation for version 3.0, but the XML schema 35 is still based on his work. 36 <p> 37 38 Marcel Patzlaff has initiated a series of artifacts in the Maven Central 39 repository. I am now maintaining them as part of the official builds. 40 <p> 41 42 Many other people have expressed their enthusiasm and have chimed in with 43 interesting ideas, bug reports, and bug fixes: Thorsten Heit, Oliver Retzl, 44 Jonathan Knudsen, Tarcisio Camara, Bob Drury, Dave Jarvis, Marc Chapman, Dave 45 Morehouse, Richard Osbaldeston, Peter Hawkins, Mark Sherington, David Sitsky, 46 James Manning, Ptolemy Oberin, Frank-Michael Moser, QZ Shines, Thomas Singer, 47 Michele Puccini, Roman Bednarek, Natalia Pujol, Daniel Sjöblom, Jan 48 Filipsky, Charles Smith, Gerrit Telkamp, Noel Grandin, Torbjörn 49 Söderstedt, Clemens Eisserer, Clark Bassett, Eduard Welch, Dawid Weiss, 50 Andrew Wilson, Sean Owen, Niels Gron, Ishan Mehta, Steven Adams, Xavier Kral, 51 Stefan Martin, Toby Reyelts, Bernhard Eder, Manfred Moser, Marco Blümel, 52 David Reiss, 53 and many more. Thanks! Your feedback has been invaluable. 54 <p> 55 56 <a href="http://www.saikoa.com/" target="_top">Saikoa</a> is providing the 57 financial resources for this project. At Saikoa, we're also developing 58 ProGuard's sibling for Android, 59 <a href="http://www.saikoa.com/dexguard" target="_top">DexGuard</a>. 60 <p> 61 62 <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/proguard/" 63 target="other">SourceForge</a> is providing the resources for hosting this 64 project and many other projects. 65 <p> 66 67 <a href="http://www.sonatype.com/" target="other">Sonatype</a> and 68 the <a href="http://search.maven.org/#search|ga|1|g:%22net.sf.proguard%22" 69 target="other">Maven Central</a> repository are hosting the Maven artifacts. 70 <p> 71 72 The code and these web pages were written using Oracle/Sun's JDKs, Linux, 73 IntelliJ IDEA, GNU emacs, bash, sed, awk, and a whole host of other tools that 74 continue to make programming interesting. 75 <p> 76 77 And finally, I'm a great fan of Sanaware's <a 78 href="http://www.javadocking.com/" target="other">Java Docking Library</a>. 79 80 <hr /> 81 <noscript><div><a target="_top" href="index.html" class="button">Show menu</a></div></noscript> 82 <address> 83 Copyright © 2002-2013 84 <a target="other" href="http://www.lafortune.eu/">Eric Lafortune</a>. 85 </address> 86 87 </body> 88 </html> 89
