1<!doctype html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//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<h2>Acknowledgements</h2> 12 13The first versions of <b>ProGuard</b> grew out of <b>RetroGuard</b>, which its 14author Mark Welsh kindly made available under the GNU Lesser General Public 15License. <b>RetroGuard</b> is a very nice piece of code, but it only performed 16obfuscation. I started from the class file parsing code and wrote my own 17shrinker, optimizer, obfuscator, and preverifier. As of version 4.0, all of the 18original code has been rewritten, so the most obvious remaining similarity are 19the program names. 20<p> 21 22Dirk Schnelle has contributed and maintained the first versions of the Ant 23task. I have rewritten the implementation for version 3.0, but the XML schema 24is still based on his work. 25<p> 26 27Since its first public release, many people have expressed their enthusiasm and 28have chimed in with interesting ideas, bug reports, and bug fixes: Thorsten 29Heit, Oliver Retzl, Jonathan Knudsen, Tarcisio Camara, Bob Drury, Dave Jarvis, 30Marc Chapman, Dave Morehouse, Richard Osbaldeston, Peter Hawkins, Mark 31Sherington, David Sitsky, James Manning, Ptolemy Oberin, Frank-Michael Moser, 32QZ Shines, Thomas Singer, Michele Puccini, Roman Bednarek, Natalia Pujol, 33Daniel Sjöblom, Jan Filipsky, Charles Smith, Gerrit Telkamp, Noel 34Grandin, Torbjörn Söderstedt, Clemens Eisserer, Clark Bassett, 35Eduard Welch, Dawid Weiss, Andrew Wilson, Sean Owen, Niels Gron, Ishan Mehta, 36Steven Adams, Xavier Kral, 37and many others. Thanks! Your feedback has been invaluable. 38<p> 39 40I am developing ProGuard in my spare time, which is possible thanks to my 41day-time job at <a href="http://www.luciad.com/" target="other">Luciad</a>. 42<p> 43 44<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/proguard/" 45target="other">SourceForge</a> is generously providing the resources for 46hosting this project and many other projects. 47<p> 48 49JetBrains is kindly providing a license for its IntelliJ IDEA development 50environment. 51<p> 52 53The code and these web pages were written using Sun's JDKs, Linux, IntelliJ 54IDEA, GNU emacs, bash, sed, awk, and a whole host of other tools that continue 55to make programming interesting. 56<p> 57 58And finally, I'm a great fan of the <a 59href="http://www.javadocking.com/" target="other">Java Docking Library</a>. 60 61<hr> 62<address> 63Copyright © 2002-2009 64<a href="http://www.graphics.cornell.edu/~eric/">Eric Lafortune</a>. 65</address> 66 67</body> 68</html> 69