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24<h2>License</h2>
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26<b>ProGuard</b> is free. You can use it freely for processing your
27applications, commercial or not. Your code obviously remains yours after
28having been processed, and its license can remain unchanged.
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31The <b>ProGuard code</b> itself is copyrighted, but its distribution license
32provides you with some rights for modifying and redistributing its code and
33its documentation. More specifically, <b>ProGuard</b> is distributed under the
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36Software Foundation</a> (FSF). In short, this means that you may freely
37redistribute the program, modified or as is, on the condition that you make
38the complete source code available as well. If you develop a program that is
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40<b>ProGuard</b>, the program as a whole has to be distributed at no charge
41under the GPL. I am granting a <a href="GPL_exception.html">special
42exception</a> to the latter clause (in wording suggested by
43the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl-faq.html#GPLIncompatibleLibs"
44target="other">FSF</a>), for combinations with the following stand-alone
45applications: Apache Ant, Apache Maven, the Google Android SDK, the Eclipse
46ProGuardDT GUI, the EclipseME JME IDE, the Oracle NetBeans Java IDE, the
47Oracle JME Wireless Toolkit, the Simple Build Tool for Scala, and the Sanaware
48Tools.
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51The <b>ProGuard user documentation</b> is copyrighted as well. It may only be
52redistributed without changes, along with the unmodified version of the code.
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56Copyright &copy; 2002-2014
57<a target="other" href="http://www.lafortune.eu/">Eric Lafortune</a> @ <a target="top" href="http://www.saikoa.com/">Saikoa</a>.
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