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 </head> 9 <body> 10 11 <script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript"> 12 <!-- 13 if (window.self==window.top) 14 document.write('<a class="largebutton" target="_top" href="index.html#acknowledgements.html">ProGuard index</a> <a class="largebutton" target="_top" href="http://www.saikoa.com/dexguard">DexGuard</a> <a class="largebutton" target="_top" href="http://www.saikoa.com/">Saikoa</a> <a class="largebutton" target="other" href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/proguard/">Sourceforge</a>') 15 //--> 16 </script> 17 <noscript> 18 <a class="largebutton" target="_top" href="index.html#acknowledgements.html">ProGuard index</a> 19 <a class="largebutton" target="_top" href="http://www.saikoa.com/dexguard">DexGuard</a> 20 <a class="largebutton" target="_top" href="http://www.saikoa.com/">Saikoa</a> 21 <a class="largebutton" target="other" href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/proguard/">Sourceforge</a> 22 </noscript> 23 24 <h2>Acknowledgements</h2> 25 26 The first versions of <b>ProGuard</b> grew out of <b>RetroGuard</b>, which its 27 author Mark Welsh kindly made available under the GNU Lesser General Public 28 License. RetroGuard is a very nice piece of code, but it only performed 29 obfuscation. I started from the class file parsing code and wrote my own 30 shrinker, optimizer, obfuscator, and preverifier. As of version 4.0, all of the 31 original code has been rewritten, so the most obvious remaining similarity are 32 the program names. 33 <p> 34 35 Dirk Schnelle has contributed and maintained the first versions of the Ant 36 task. I have rewritten the implementation for version 3.0, but the XML schema 37 is still based on his work. 38 <p> 39 40 Marcel Patzlaff has initiated a series of artifacts in the Maven Central 41 repository. I am now maintaining them as part of the official builds. 42 <p> 43 44 Many other people have expressed their enthusiasm and have chimed in with 45 interesting ideas, bug reports, and bug fixes: Thorsten Heit, Oliver Retzl, 46 Jonathan Knudsen, Tarcisio Camara, Bob Drury, Dave Jarvis, Marc Chapman, Dave 47 Morehouse, Richard Osbaldeston, Peter Hawkins, Mark Sherington, David Sitsky, 48 James Manning, Ptolemy Oberin, Frank-Michael Moser, QZ Shines, Thomas Singer, 49 Michele Puccini, Roman Bednarek, Natalia Pujol, Daniel Sjöblom, Jan 50 Filipsky, Charles Smith, Gerrit Telkamp, Noel Grandin, Torbjörn 51 Söderstedt, Clemens Eisserer, Clark Bassett, Eduard Welch, Dawid Weiss, 52 Andrew Wilson, Sean Owen, Niels Gron, Ishan Mehta, Steven Adams, Xavier Kral, 53 Stefan Martin, Toby Reyelts, Bernhard Eder, Manfred Moser, Marco Blümel, 54 David Reiss, Roy Williams, 55 and many more. Thanks! Your feedback has been invaluable. 56 <p> 57 58 <a href="http://www.saikoa.com/" target="_top">Saikoa</a> is providing the 59 financial resources for this project. At Saikoa, we're also developing 60 ProGuard's sibling for Android, 61 <a href="http://www.saikoa.com/dexguard" target="_top">DexGuard</a>. 62 <p> 63 64 <a href="http://www.sky.com/" rel="nofollow" target="other">British Sky</a> 65 has kindly sponsored the optimization of <i>enum</i> types. 66 <p> 67 68 <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/proguard/" 69 target="other">SourceForge</a> is providing the resources for hosting this 70 project and many other projects. 71 <p> 72 73 <a href="http://www.sonatype.com/" target="other">Sonatype</a> and 74 the <a href="http://search.maven.org/#search|ga|1|g:%22net.sf.proguard%22" 75 target="other">Maven Central</a> repository are hosting the Maven artifacts. 76 <p> 77 78 The code and these web pages were written using Oracle/Sun's JDKs, Linux, 79 IntelliJ IDEA, GNU emacs, bash, sed, awk, and a whole host of other tools that 80 continue to make programming interesting. 81 82 <hr /> 83 <address> 84 Copyright © 2002-2014 85 <a target="other" href="http://www.lafortune.eu/">Eric Lafortune</a> @ <a target="top" href="http://www.saikoa.com/">Saikoa</a>. 86 </address> 87 88 </body> 89 </html> 90
