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22<h2>License</h2>
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24<b>ProGuard</b> is free. You can use it freely for processing your
25applications, commercial or not. Your code obviously remains yours after
26having been processed, and its license can remain the same.
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29<b>ProGuard</b> itself is copyrighted, but its distribution license provides
30you with some rights for modifying and redistributing its code and its
31documentation. More specifically, <b>ProGuard</b> is distributed under the
32terms of the <a href="GPL.html">GNU General Public License</a> (GPL), version
332, as published by the <a href="http://www.fsf.org/" target="other">Free
34Software Foundation</a> (FSF). In short, this means that you may freely
35redistribute the program, modified or as is, on the condition that you make
36the complete source code available as well. If you develop a program that is
37linked with
38<b>ProGuard</b>, the program as a whole has to be distributed at no charge
39under the GPL. I am granting a <a href="GPL_exception.html">special
40exception</a> to the latter clause (in wording suggested by
41the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl-faq.html#GPLIncompatibleLibs"
42target="other">FSF</a>), for combinations with the following stand-alone
43applications: Apache Ant, Apache Maven, the Google Android SDK, the Eclipse
44ProGuardDT GUI, the EclipseME JME IDE, the Oracle NetBeans Java IDE, the
45Oracle JME Wireless Toolkit, the Intel TXE SDK, the Simple Build Tool for
46Scala, the NeoMAD Tools by Neomades, the Javaground Tools, and the Sanaware
47Tools.
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50The <b>ProGuard user documentation</b> represents an important part of this
51work. It may only be redistributed without changes, along with the unmodified
52version of the code.
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