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 License</title> 8</head> 9<body> 10 11<h2>License</h2> 12 13<b>ProGuard</b> is free. You can use it freely for processing your 14applications, commercial or not. Your code obviously remains yours after 15having been processed, and its license can remain the same. 16<p> 17 18<b>ProGuard</b> itself is copyrighted, but its distribution license provides 19you with some rights for modifying and redistributing its code and its 20documentation. More specifically, <b>ProGuard</b> is distributed under the 21terms of the <a href="GPL.html">GNU General Public License</a> (GPL), version 222, as published by the <a href="http://www.fsf.org/" target="other">Free 23Software Foundation</a> (FSF). In short, this means that you may freely 24redistribute the program, modified or as is, on the condition that you make 25the complete source code available as well. If you develop a program that is 26linked with 27<b>ProGuard</b>, the program as a whole has to be distributed at no charge 28under the GPL. I am granting a <a href="GPL_exception.html">special 29exception</a> to the latter clause (in wording suggested by 30the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl-faq.html#GPLIncompatibleLibs" 31target="other">FSF</a>), for combinations with the following stand-alone 32applications: Apache Ant, Apache Maven, the Eclipse ProGuardDT GUI, the 33EclipseME JME IDE, the Sun NetBeans Java IDE, the Sun JME Wireless Toolkit, 34and the Javaground Tools. 35 36<p> 37The <b>ProGuard user documentation</b> represents an important part of this 38work. It may only be redistributed without changes, along with the unmodified 39version of the code. 40 41<hr> 42<address> 43Copyright © 2002-2009 44<a href="http://www.graphics.cornell.edu/~eric/">Eric Lafortune</a>. 45</address> 46</body> 47</html> 48