1<html><head> 2 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> 3 <title>Chapter 14. Acknowledgments</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.76.1"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="FindBugs™ Manual"><link rel="up" href="index.html" title="FindBugs™ Manual"><link rel="prev" href="license.html" title="Chapter 13. License"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Chapter 14. Acknowledgments</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="license.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center"> </th><td width="20%" align="right"> </td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="chapter" title="Chapter 14. Acknowledgments"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a name="acknowledgments"></a>Chapter 14. Acknowledgments</h2></div></div></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="acknowledgments.html#d0e3629">1. Contributors</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="acknowledgments.html#d0e3752">2. Software Used</a></span></dt></dl></div><div class="sect1" title="1. Contributors"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="d0e3629"></a>1. Contributors</h2></div></div></div><p><span class="application">FindBugs</span> was originally written by Bill Pugh (<code class="email"><<a class="email" href="mailto:pugh@cs.umd.edu">pugh@cs.umd.edu</a>></code>). 4David Hovemeyer (<code class="email"><<a class="email" href="mailto:daveho@cs.umd.edu">daveho@cs.umd.edu</a>></code>) implemented some of the 5detectors, added the Swing GUI, and is a co-maintainer.</p><p>Mike Fagan (<code class="email"><<a class="email" href="mailto:mfagan@tde.com">mfagan@tde.com</a>></code>) contributed the <span class="application">Ant</span> build script, 6the <span class="application">Ant</span> task, and several enhancements and bug fixes to the GUI.</p><p>Germano Leichsenring contributed Japanese translations of the bug 7summaries.</p><p>David Li contributed the Emacs bug report format.</p><p>Peter D. Stout contributed recursive detection of Class-Path 8attributes in analyzed Jar files, German translations of 9text used in the Swing GUI, and other fixes.</p><p>Peter Friese wrote the <span class="application">FindBugs</span> Eclipse plugin.</p><p>Rohan Lloyd contributed several Mac OS X enhancements, 10bug detector improvements, 11and maintains the Fink package for <span class="application">FindBugs</span>.</p><p>Hiroshi Okugawa translated the <span class="application">FindBugs</span> manual and 12more of the bug summaries into Japanese.</p><p>Phil Crosby enhanced the Eclipse plugin to add a view 13to display the bug details.</p><p>Dave Brosius fixed a number of bugs, added user preferences 14to the Swing GUI, improved several bug detectors, and 15contributed the string concatenation detector.</p><p>Thomas Klaeger contributed a number of bug fixes and 16bug detector improvements.</p><p>Andrei Loskutov made a number of improvements to the 17Eclipse plugin.</p><p>Brian Goetz contributed a major refactoring of the 18visitor classes to improve readability and understandability.</p><p> Pete Angstadt fixed several problems in the Swing GUI.</p><p>Francis Lalonde provided a task resource file for the 19FindBugs Ant task.</p><p>Garvin LeClaire contributed support for output in 20Xdocs format, for use by Maven.</p><p>Holger Stenzhorn contributed improved German translations of items 21in the Swing GUI.</p><p>Juha Knuutila contributed Finnish translations of items 22in the Swing GUI.</p><p>Tanel Lebedev contributed Estonian translations of items 23in the Swing GUI.</p><p>Hanai Shisei (ruimo) contributed full Japanese translations of 24bug messages, and text used in the Swing GUI.</p><p>David Cotton contributed Fresh translations for bug 25messages and for the Swing GUI.</p><p>Michael Tamm contributed support for the "errorProperty" attribute 26in the Ant task.</p><p>Thomas Kuehne improved the German translation of the Swing GUI.</p><p>Len Trigg improved source file support for the Emacs output mode.</p><p>Greg Bentz provided a fix for the hashcode/equals detector.</p><p>K. Hashimoto contributed internationalization fixes and several other 27 bug fixes.</p><p> 28 Glenn Boysko contributed support for ignoring specified local 29 variables in the dead local store detector. 30</p><p> 31 Jay Dunning contributed a detector to find equality comparisons 32 of floating-point values, and overhauled the analysis summary 33 report and its representation in the saved XML format. 34</p><p> 35 Olivier Parent contributed updated French translations for bug descriptions and 36 Swing GUI. 37</p><p> 38 Chris Nappin contributed the <code class="filename">plain.xsl</code> 39 stylesheet. 40</p><p> 41 Etienne Giraudy contributed the <code class="filename">fancy.xsl</code> and <code class="filename">fancy-hist.xsl</code> 42 stylesheets, and made improvements to the <span class="command"><strong>-xml:withMessages</strong></span> 43 option. 44</p><p> 45 Takashi Okamoto fixed bugs in the project preferences dialog 46 in the Eclipse plugin, and contributed to its internationalization and localization. 47</p><p>Thomas Einwaller fixed bugs in the project preferences dialog in the Eclipse plugin.</p><p>Jeff Knox contributed support for the warningsProperty attribute 48in the Ant task.</p><p>Peter Hendriks extended the Eclipse plugin preferences, 49and fixed a bug related to renaming the Eclipse plugin ID.</p><p>Mark McKay contributed an Ant task to launch the findbugs frame.</p><p>Dieter von Holten (dvholten) contributed 50some German improvements to findbugs_de.properties.</p><p>If you have contributed to <span class="application">FindBugs</span>, but aren't mentioned above, 51please send email to <code class="email"><<a class="email" href="mailto:findbugs@cs.umd.edu">findbugs@cs.umd.edu</a>></code> (and also accept 52our humble apologies).</p></div><div class="sect1" title="2. Software Used"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="d0e3752"></a>2. Software Used</h2></div></div></div><p><span class="application">FindBugs</span> uses several open-source software packages, without which its 53development would have been much more difficult.</p><div class="sect2" title="2.1. BCEL"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="d0e3759"></a>2.1. BCEL</h3></div></div></div><p><span class="application">FindBugs</span> includes software developed by the Apache Software Foundation 54(<a class="ulink" href="http://www.apache.org/" target="_top">http://www.apache.org/</a>). 55Specifically, it uses the <a class="ulink" href="http://jakarta.apache.org/bcel/" target="_top">Byte Code 56Engineering Library</a>.</p></div><div class="sect2" title="2.2. ASM"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="d0e3772"></a>2.2. ASM</h3></div></div></div><p><span class="application">FindBugs</span> uses the <a class="ulink" href="http://asm.objectweb.org/" target="_top">ASM</a> 57bytecode framework, which is distributed under the following license:</p><div class="blockquote"><blockquote class="blockquote"><p> 58Copyright (c) 2000-2005 INRIA, France Telecom 59All rights reserved. 60</p><p> 61Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 62modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 63are met: 64</p><div class="orderedlist"><ol class="orderedlist" type="1"><li class="listitem"><p> 65 Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 66 notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 67 </p></li><li class="listitem"><p> 68 Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 69 notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 70 documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 71 </p></li><li class="listitem"><p> 72 Neither the name of the copyright holders nor the names of its 73 contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from 74 this software without specific prior written permission. 75 </p></li></ol></div><p> 76THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" 77AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 78IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 79ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE 80LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR 81CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF 82SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS 83INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN 84CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) 85ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF 86THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 87</p></blockquote></div></div><div class="sect2" title="2.3. DOM4J"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="d0e3799"></a>2.3. DOM4J</h3></div></div></div><p><span class="application">FindBugs</span> uses <a class="ulink" href="http://dom4j.org" target="_top">DOM4J</a>, which is 88distributed under the following license:</p><div class="blockquote"><blockquote class="blockquote"><p> 89Copyright 2001 (C) MetaStuff, Ltd. All Rights Reserved. 90</p><p> 91Redistribution and use of this software and associated documentation 92("Software"), with or without modification, are permitted provided that 93the following conditions are met: 94</p><div class="orderedlist"><ol class="orderedlist" type="1"><li class="listitem"><p> 95 Redistributions of source code must retain copyright statements and 96 notices. Redistributions must also contain a copy of this document. 97 </p></li><li class="listitem"><p> 98 Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 99 notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 100 documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 101 </p></li><li class="listitem"><p> 102 The name "DOM4J" must not be used to endorse or promote products 103 derived from this Software without prior written permission 104 of MetaStuff, Ltd. For written permission, please contact 105 <code class="email"><<a class="email" href="mailto:dom4j-info@metastuff.com">dom4j-info@metastuff.com</a>></code>. 106 </p></li><li class="listitem"><p> 107 Products derived from this Software may not be called "DOM4J" nor may 108 "DOM4J" appear in their names without prior written permission of 109 MetaStuff, Ltd. DOM4J is a registered trademark of MetaStuff, Ltd. 110 </p></li><li class="listitem"><p> 111 Due credit should be given to the DOM4J Project (<a class="ulink" href="http://dom4j.org/" target="_top">http://dom4j.org/</a>). 112 </p></li></ol></div><p> 113THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY METASTUFF, LTD. AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' 114AND ANY EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, 115THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR 116PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL METASTUFF, LTD. 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