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Florian Balmer

Florian Balmer is the author of Notepad2, a lightweight Scintilla-based text editor for Windows published on the flo's freeware site. Notepad2 and its source code are distributed free of charge under a BSD licence.

Licensing at a Glance

  • Open source
  • Freeware

  1. Notepad2 may be used freely for private, educational and commercial purposes, and may be modified, translated and redistributed under the conditions of the included License.txt file.[1]

  2. The author asks that no distribution fees be charged for Notepad2 and does not recommend bundling it with other applications.[2]

  3. Version 2.0.15 (released 7 April 2007) introduced the BSD License for Notepad2 and its source code.[3]

  4. The readme describes Notepad2 as free software that may be used and distributed freely, with use at the user's own risk.[4]

  5. The current release listed is version 4.2.25, offered as x86 and x64 program files, setup packages and source code; the project page was last updated in 2012.[5]

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References

  1. Notepad2 - Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) · flos-freeware.ch · retrieved 2026-09-27
  2. Notepad2 - Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) · flos-freeware.ch · retrieved 2026-09-27
  3. Notepad2.txt - Readme File · flos-freeware.ch · retrieved 2026-09-27
  4. Notepad2.txt - Readme File · flos-freeware.ch · retrieved 2026-09-27
  5. flo's freeware - Notepad2 · flos-freeware.ch · retrieved 2026-09-27
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