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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. <b>RetroGuard</b> 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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| Since its first public release, many 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, |
| and many others. 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. |
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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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| 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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| And finally, I'm a great fan of Sanaware's <a |
| href="http://www.javadocking.com/" target="other">Java Docking Library</a>. |
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| <a target="other" href="http://www.lafortune.eu/">Eric Lafortune</a>. |
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