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| <h2>Acknowledgements</h2> |
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| The first versions of <b>ProGuard</b> grew out of <b>RetroGuard</b>, which its |
| author Mark Welsh kindly made available under the GNU Lesser General Public |
| License. RetroGuard is a very nice piece of code, but it only performed |
| obfuscation. I started from the class file parsing code and wrote my own |
| shrinker, optimizer, obfuscator, and preverifier. As of version 4.0, all of the |
| original code has been rewritten, so the most obvious remaining similarity are |
| the program names. |
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| Dirk Schnelle has contributed and maintained the first versions of the Ant |
| task. I have rewritten the implementation for version 3.0, but the XML schema |
| is still based on his work. |
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| Marcel Patzlaff has initiated a series of artifacts in the Maven Central |
| repository. I am now maintaining them as part of the official builds. |
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| Many other people have expressed their enthusiasm and have chimed in with |
| interesting ideas, bug reports, and bug fixes: Thorsten Heit, Oliver Retzl, |
| Jonathan Knudsen, Tarcisio Camara, Bob Drury, Dave Jarvis, Marc Chapman, Dave |
| Morehouse, Richard Osbaldeston, Peter Hawkins, Mark Sherington, David Sitsky, |
| James Manning, Ptolemy Oberin, Frank-Michael Moser, QZ Shines, Thomas Singer, |
| Michele Puccini, Roman Bednarek, Natalia Pujol, Daniel Sjöblom, Jan |
| Filipsky, Charles Smith, Gerrit Telkamp, Noel Grandin, Torbjörn |
| Söderstedt, Clemens Eisserer, Clark Bassett, Eduard Welch, Dawid Weiss, |
| Andrew Wilson, Sean Owen, Niels Gron, Ishan Mehta, Steven Adams, Xavier Kral, |
| Stefan Martin, Toby Reyelts, Bernhard Eder, Manfred Moser, Marco Blümel, |
| David Reiss, Roy Williams, |
| and many more. Thanks! Your feedback has been invaluable. |
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| <a href="http://www.saikoa.com/" target="_top">Saikoa</a> is providing the |
| financial resources for this project. At Saikoa, we're also developing |
| ProGuard's sibling for Android, |
| <a href="http://www.saikoa.com/dexguard" target="_top">DexGuard</a>. |
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| <a href="http://www.sky.com/" rel="nofollow" target="other">British Sky</a> |
| has kindly sponsored the optimization of <i>enum</i> types. |
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| <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/proguard/" |
| target="other">SourceForge</a> is providing the resources for hosting this |
| project and many other projects. |
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| <a href="http://www.sonatype.com/" target="other">Sonatype</a> and |
| the <a href="http://search.maven.org/#search|ga|1|g:%22net.sf.proguard%22" |
| target="other">Maven Central</a> repository are hosting the Maven artifacts. |
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| The code and these web pages were written using Oracle/Sun's JDKs, Linux, |
| IntelliJ IDEA, GNU emacs, bash, sed, awk, and a whole host of other tools that |
| continue to make programming interesting. |
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| Copyright © 2002-2014 |
| <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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