General Information
Basic general information about the generators: creator/company, license/price etc.
| Name | Creator | First public release date | Latest stable version | Software license |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ApiGen | David Grudl, Jaroslav Hanslík, Ondřej Nešpor | 2010 | 2.5.0 | New BSD / GPL v2 / GPL v3 |
| Appledoc | Gentle Bytes | 2009 | 2.0.3 | Modified BSD |
| Asciidoc | Stuart Rackham | 2002 | 8.6.8 | GPL |
| Autoduck | Eric Artzt | 1993 | 2.10 | Freeware |
| BI Documenter | Mienasoft | 2006 | 1.5 | Proprietary |
| classdoc | Jens Gulden | 2001 | 1.0 | GPL |
| Codenotes | New Vintage Media | 2012 | 1.0 | Omnilicense |
| CppDoc | Richard Feit | 1998/11/23 | 2.3.1 | Proprietary |
| DB Manual | Blue Oceans Ltd | 2006 | 1.3 | Proprietary |
| DBDesc | Logica2 | 2005 | 3.1 | Proprietary |
| DBScribe | Leadum Software | 2007 | 1.1 | Proprietary |
| Ddoc | Walter Bright | 2005/09/19 | DMD 1.010 / GDC 0.14 | Freeware / GPL |
| devscribe | Geoff Cox | 2008 | 2.00 | MSDN Code Gallery Licenses |
| Doc-O-Matic | toolsfactory software inc | 2000/11/-- | 6.1 | Proprietary |
| DOC++ | Dragos Acostachioaie. | 2002/12/22 | 3.4.10 | GPL |
| Document! X | Innovasys | 1998 | 2012.1 | Proprietary |
| Doxygen | Dimitri van Heesch | 1997 | 1.8.2 | GPL |
| Epydoc | Edward Loper | 2002/01/-- | 3.0 | MIT License |
| ForgeDoc | Balazs Tihanyi | 2012/02/21 | 1.0 | Proprietary |
| fpdoc | Sebastian Guenther | 2005? | 2.4.0 | GPL |
| GenHelp | FraserSoft | 1998/10/-- | 5.6.7 | Proprietary |
| Haddock | Simon Marlow | 2002 | 2.0.0.0 (2008) | BSD |
| HeaderDoc | Apple Inc. | 2000/09/-- | 8.7.15 | APSL |
| Help Generator | Agora Software BV | 2004/08/-- | 4.0 | Proprietary |
| HyperSQL | Randy Phillips, Itzchak Rehberg | 2001 | 3.7.5 | GPL |
| IDLdoc | Michael Galloy | 2002 | 3.3.1 | BSD |
| Imagix 4D | Imagix Corp. | 1995 | 7.3 | Proprietary |
| Javadoc | Sun Microsystems | 1995 | 1.6 | GPL |
| jGrouseDoc | Denis Riabtchik | 2007/04/-- | 1.5 | BSD |
| JSDoc | Michael Mathews | 2001/07/-- | 1.10.2 | GPL |
| JsDoc Toolkit | Michael Mathews | 2007? | 2.0.0 | MIT License |
| KDOC | Sirtaj Singh Kang | 1999 | 3.0.1 | ? |
| Markdown | John Gruber | 2004/12/17 | 1.0.1 | BSD |
| Natural Docs | Greg Valure | 2003/05/26 | 1.51 | GPL |
| NDoc | Kevin Downs | 2003/07/27 | 1.3.1 | GPL |
| Pandoc | John MacFarlane | 2012 | 1.9.2.1 | GPL |
| phpDocumentor | Joshua Eichorn | 2000 | 1.4.4 | LGPL |
| phpSimpleDoc | Thierry Graff | 2008 | 1.0 | GPL |
| PLDoc | Albert Tumanov | 2001 | 0.9.1 | LGPL |
| Project Analyzer | Aivosto Oy | 1997? | 9.0 | Proprietary |
| RDoc | Dave Thomas | 2001/12/14 | in Ruby core | Ruby License |
| ROBODoc | Frans Slothouber | 1995/01/19 | 4.99.36 | GPL |
| Sandcastle | Microsoft | 2008/05/-- | 2.4.10520 | Ms-PL |
| SoDa | IBM | 2008/07/-- | 7.0 | Proprietary |
| Sphinx | Georg Brandl | 2008/03/-- | 1.1.2 | BSD |
| SQL Documentor | InfoCaptor | 2005/11/-- | 3.4 | Proprietary |
| ThimbleDoc | Thimbleopensource.com | 2008 | 0.2beta | GPL |
| TwinText | PTLogica | 2002 | 2008.0.406 | Proprietary |
| VBDOX | Mihayl Stamenov | 2001/10/26 | 2.1.0 | GPL |
| VBSdoc | Ansgar Wiechers | 2010/11/29 | 2.3 | GPL |
| VSdocman | Helixoft | 2000/10/-- | 6.0 | Proprietary |
| Universal Report | Universal Software | 2001–2010 | 9.0 | Free Education / Proprietary |
| YARD | Loren Segal | 2007/02/24 | 0.7.3 | MIT License |
| WEB/CWEB | Donald E. Knuth | |||
| Name | Creator | First public release date | Latest stable version | Software license |
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