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      3 ProGuard is free. You can use it freely for processing your
      4 applications, commercial or not. Your code obviously remains yours
      5 after having been processed, and its license can remain the same.
      6 
      7 ProGuard itself is copyrighted, but its distribution license provides
      8 you with some rights for modifying and redistributing its code and its
      9 documentation. More specifically, ProGuard is distributed under the
     10 terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL), version 2, as published
     11 by the Free Software Foundation (FSF). In short, this means that you
     12 may freely redistribute the program, modified or as is, on the
     13 condition that you make the complete source code available as well. If
     14 you develop a program that is linked with ProGuard, the program as a
     15 whole has to be distributed at no charge under the GPL. I am granting
     16 a special exception to the latter clause (in wording suggested by the
     17 FSF), for combinations with the following stand-alone applications:
     18 Apache Ant, Apache Maven, the Eclipse ProGuardDT GUI, the EclipseME
     19 JME IDE, the Sun NetBeans Java IDE, the Sun JME Wireless Toolkit, and
     20 the Javaground Tools.
     21 
     22 The ProGuard user documentation represents an important part of this
     23 work. It may only be redistributed without changes, along with the
     24 unmodified version of the code.
     25 
     26 Copyright  2002-2009 Eric Lafortune.
     27 
     28 		    GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
     29 		       Version 2, June 1991
     30 
     31  Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
     32      59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
     33  Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
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     35 
     36 			    Preamble
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     87 		    GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
     88    TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
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    106 
    107   1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's
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    311 		     END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS
    312 
    314 	    How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
    315 
    316   If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest
    317 possible use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it
    318 free software which everyone can redistribute and change under these terms.
    319 
    320   To do so, attach the following notices to the program.  It is safest
    321 to attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively
    322 convey the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least
    323 the "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.
    324 
    325     <one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.>
    326     Copyright (C) <year>  <name of author>
    327 
    328     This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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    341 
    342 
    343 Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
    344 
    345 If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this
    346 when it starts in an interactive mode:
    347 
    348     Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) year  name of author
    349     Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'.
    350     This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
    351     under certain conditions; type `show c' for details.
    352 
    353 The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the appropriate
    354 parts of the General Public License.  Of course, the commands you use may
    355 be called something other than `show w' and `show c'; they could even be
    356 mouse-clicks or menu items--whatever suits your program.
    357 
    358 You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your
    359 school, if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the program, if
    360 necessary.  Here is a sample; alter the names:
    361 
    362   Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program
    363   `Gnomovision' (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker.
    364 
    365   <signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989
    366   Ty Coon, President of Vice
    367 
    368 This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into
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    370 consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the
    371 library.  If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Library General
    372 Public License instead of this License.
    373