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Doxygen

Doxygen is an open-source documentation generator, created and maintained by Dimitri van Heesch, that produces documentation from source-code comments. It is free software distributed under the GNU General Public License version 2.

Licensing at a Glance

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  1. Doxygen is copyright Dimitri van Heesch and may be used, copied, modified and distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2.[1]

  2. Documents produced by Doxygen are derivative works of the input used to produce them and are not affected by the Doxygen licence.[2]

  3. Doxygen is free and open-source software with builds for Windows, Linux and macOS as well as source code; downloading it constitutes agreement to the licence terms and privacy statement.[3]

  4. Doxygen can generate documentation as HTML, PDF (via LaTeX), Word (via RTF) and XML.[4]

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References

  1. Doxygen license · doxygen.nl · retrieved 2026-09-27
  2. Doxygen license · doxygen.nl · retrieved 2026-09-27
  3. Doxygen download · doxygen.nl · retrieved 2026-09-27
  4. Doxygen homepage · doxygen.nl · retrieved 2026-09-27
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