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<h2>License</h2>
<b>ProGuard</b> is free. You can use it freely for processing your
applications, commercial or not. Your code obviously remains yours after
having been processed, and its license can remain the same.
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<b>ProGuard</b> itself is copyrighted, but its distribution license provides
you with some rights for modifying and redistributing its code and its
documentation. More specifically, <b>ProGuard</b> is distributed under the
terms of the <a href="GPL.html">GNU General Public License</a> (GPL), version
2, as published by the <a href="http://www.fsf.org/" target="other">Free
Software Foundation</a> (FSF). In short, this means that you may freely
redistribute the program, modified or as is, on the condition that you make
the complete source code available as well. If you develop a program that is
linked with
<b>ProGuard</b>, the program as a whole has to be distributed at no charge
under the GPL. I am granting a <a href="GPL_exception.html">special
exception</a> to the latter clause (in wording suggested by
the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl-faq.html#GPLIncompatibleLibs"
target="other">FSF</a>), for combinations with the following stand-alone
applications: Apache Ant, Apache Maven, the Eclipse ProGuardDT GUI, the
EclipseME JME IDE, the Sun NetBeans Java IDE, the Sun JME Wireless Toolkit,
and the Javaground Tools.
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The <b>ProGuard user documentation</b> represents an important part of this
work. It may only be redistributed without changes, along with the unmodified
version of the code.
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Copyright © 2002-2009
<a href="http://www.graphics.cornell.edu/~eric/">Eric Lafortune</a>.
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