Chapter 14. Acknowledgments
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# Chapter 14. Acknowledgments

## 1. Contributors

FindBugs was originally written by Bill Pugh (`<pugh@cs.umd.edu>`). David Hovemeyer (`<daveho@cs.umd.edu>`) implemented some of the detectors, added the Swing GUI, and is a co-maintainer.

Mike Fagan (`<mfagan@tde.com>`) contributed the Ant build script, the Ant task, and several enhancements and bug fixes to the GUI.

Germano Leichsenring contributed Japanese translations of the bug summaries.

David Li contributed the Emacs bug report format.

Peter D. Stout contributed recursive detection of Class-Path attributes in analyzed Jar files, German translations of text used in the Swing GUI, and other fixes.

Peter Friese wrote the FindBugs Eclipse plugin.

Rohan Lloyd contributed several Mac OS X enhancements, bug detector improvements, and maintains the Fink package for FindBugs.

Hiroshi Okugawa translated the FindBugs manual and more of the bug summaries into Japanese.

Phil Crosby enhanced the Eclipse plugin to add a view to display the bug details.

Dave Brosius fixed a number of bugs, added user preferences to the Swing GUI, improved several bug detectors, and contributed the string concatenation detector.

Thomas Klaeger contributed a number of bug fixes and bug detector improvements.

Andrey Loskutov made a number of bug fixes and bug detector improvements. He is maintainer of the Eclipse plugin.

Brian Goetz contributed a major refactoring of the visitor classes to improve readability and understandability.

Pete Angstadt fixed several problems in the Swing GUI.

Francis Lalonde provided a task resource file for the FindBugs Ant task.

Garvin LeClaire contributed support for output in Xdocs format, for use by Maven.

Holger Stenzhorn contributed improved German translations of items in the Swing GUI.

Juha Knuutila contributed Finnish translations of items in the Swing GUI.

Tanel Lebedev contributed Estonian translations of items in the Swing GUI.

Hanai Shisei (ruimo) contributed full Japanese translations of bug messages, and text used in the Swing GUI.

David Cotton contributed Fresh translations for bug messages and for the Swing GUI.

Michael Tamm contributed support for the "errorProperty" attribute in the Ant task.

Thomas Kuehne improved the German translation of the Swing GUI.

Len Trigg improved source file support for the Emacs output mode.

Greg Bentz provided a fix for the hashcode/equals detector.

K. Hashimoto contributed internationalization fixes and several other bug fixes.

Glenn Boysko contributed support for ignoring specified local variables in the dead local store detector.

Jay Dunning contributed a detector to find equality comparisons of floating-point values, and overhauled the analysis summary report and its representation in the saved XML format.

Olivier Parent contributed updated French translations for bug descriptions and Swing GUI.

Chris Nappin contributed the `plain.xsl` stylesheet.

Etienne Giraudy contributed the `fancy.xsl` and `fancy-hist.xsl` stylesheets, and made improvements to the -xml:withMessages option.

Takashi Okamoto fixed bugs in the project preferences dialog in the Eclipse plugin, and contributed to its internationalization and localization.

Thomas Einwaller fixed bugs in the project preferences dialog in the Eclipse plugin.

Jeff Knox contributed support for the warningsProperty attribute in the Ant task.

Peter Hendriks extended the Eclipse plugin preferences, and fixed a bug related to renaming the Eclipse plugin ID.

Mark McKay contributed an Ant task to launch the findbugs frame.

Dieter von Holten (dvholten) contributed some German improvements to findbugs_de.properties.

Kevin Lubick contributed fixes and tests for multi-quick-fixes and customizable annotation colors for Eclipse plugin.

Tagir Valeev contributed several new bug detectors and improved existing ones.

If you have contributed to FindBugs, but aren't mentioned above, please send email to `<findbugs@cs.umd.edu>` (and also accept our humble apologies).

## 2. Software Used

FindBugs uses several open-source software packages, without which its development would have been much more difficult.

### 2.1. BCEL

FindBugs includes software developed by the Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org/). Specifically, it uses the Byte Code Engineering Library.

### 2.2. ASM

FindBugs uses the ASM bytecode framework, which is distributed under the following license:

> Copyright (c) 2000-2005 INRIA, France Telecom All rights reserved.

> Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

> 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

> 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

> 3. Neither the name of the copyright holders nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

> THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

### 2.3. DOM4J

FindBugs uses DOM4J, which is distributed under the following license:

> Copyright 2001 (C) MetaStuff, Ltd. All Rights Reserved.

> Redistribution and use of this software and associated documentation ("Software"), with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

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> 3. The name "DOM4J" must not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this Software without prior written permission of MetaStuff, Ltd. For written permission, please contact `<dom4j-info@metastuff.com>`.

> 4. Products derived from this Software may not be called "DOM4J" nor may "DOM4J" appear in their names without prior written permission of MetaStuff, Ltd. DOM4J is a registered trademark of MetaStuff, Ltd.

> 5. Due credit should be given to the DOM4J Project (http://dom4j.org/).

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