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     24 <h2>License</h2>
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     26 <b>ProGuard</b> is free. You can use it freely for processing your
     27 applications, commercial or not. Your code obviously remains yours after
     28 having been processed, and its license can remain unchanged.
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     31 The <b>ProGuard code</b> itself is copyrighted, but its distribution license
     32 provides you with some rights for modifying and redistributing its code and
     33 its documentation. More specifically, <b>ProGuard</b> is distributed under the
     34 terms of the <a href="GPL.html">GNU General Public License</a> (GPL), version
     35 2, as published by the <a href="http://www.fsf.org/" target="other">Free
     36 Software Foundation</a> (FSF). In short, this means that you may freely
     37 redistribute the program, modified or as is, on the condition that you make
     38 the complete source code available as well. If you develop a program that is
     39 linked with
     40 <b>ProGuard</b>, the program as a whole has to be distributed at no charge
     41 under the GPL. I am granting a <a href="GPL_exception.html">special
     42 exception</a> to the latter clause (in wording suggested by
     43 the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl-faq.html#GPLIncompatibleLibs"
     44 target="other">FSF</a>), for combinations with the following stand-alone
     45 applications: Apache Ant, Apache Maven, the Google Android SDK, the Eclipse
     46 ProGuardDT GUI, the EclipseME JME IDE, the Oracle NetBeans Java IDE, the
     47 Oracle JME Wireless Toolkit, the Simple Build Tool for Scala, and the Sanaware
     48 Tools.
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     51 The <b>ProGuard user documentation</b> is copyrighted as well. It may only be
     52 redistributed without changes, along with the unmodified version of the code.
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     56 Copyright &copy; 2002-2014
     57 <a target="other" href="http://www.lafortune.eu/">Eric Lafortune</a> @ <a target="top" href="http://www.saikoa.com/">Saikoa</a>.
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