# Acknowledgments

The first version of this guide was written by Rob Savoye. If not for his tireless efforts, this book - and this project - would never have come this far.

John Steinhart has also been supportive of the project from the beginning. I have shamelessly plagiarized one of his early announcement emails in the early part of this chapter.

Ann Barcomb was instrumental in taking this guide from the 0.3.0 to the 0.4.0 version, incorporating the many changes that came with &app; version 0.8.0.

&app; is based on the public domain program GameSWF, a graphics library for games that contains the heart of a SWF interpreter. In December 2005, &app; was forked from GameSWF and repackaged in the GNU project style, and a major recoding started.

&app; makes use of jemalloc, which is copyrighted by Jason Evans <jasone@FreeBSD.org>. The terms of the license follow:

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(s), this list of conditions and the following disclaimer as the first lines of this file unmodified other than the possible addition of one or more copyright notices. 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice(s), this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

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Finally, thanks to all of the &app; developers I haven't mentioned for all their hard work, and for answering my unending questions.