                         GNU Backgammon was written by:

    Joseph Heled            Jim Segrave             Christian Anthon
    Oystein Johansen        Joern Thyssen           Michael Petch
    Jonathan Kinsey         Gary Wong               Philippe Michel
    David Montgomery
 
                                   Support by:

     Oystein Johansen (Web Pages)        Nardy Pillards (Web Pages)
     Achim Mueller (Manual)              Albert Silver (Tutorial)

                         Contributors of code include:

    Olivier Baur            Petr Kadlec             Rod Roark
    Holger Bochnig          Kaoru Takahashi         Ingo Macherius
    Nis Joergensen          Stein Kulseth           Guido Flohr

                            Translations by:

     Petr Kadlec (Czech)
     Joern Thyssen (Danish)
     Olivier Baur (French)
     Achim Mueller (German)
     Vangelis Skarmoutsos (Greek)
     Hlynur Sigurgislason (Icelandic)
     Renzo Campagna (Italian)
     Yoshito Takeuchi (Japanese)
     Mihai Varzaru (Romanian)
     Dmitri I Gouliaev (Russian)
     Akif Dinc (Turkish)

             Contributors (of bug reports and suggestions) include:

    Russ Allbery            Neil Kazaross           James Rech
    Misja Alma              Mathias Kegelmann       Jared Riley
    Kazuaki Asai            Matija Kejzar           Klaus Rindholt
    Eric Augustine          Bert Van Kerckhove      Oliver Riordan
    Erik Barfoed            James F. Kibler         Alex Romosan
    Ron Barry               Johnny Kirk             Hans-Juergen Schaefer
    Steve Baedke            Gerhard Knop            Steve Schreiber
    Stefan van den Berg     Robert Konigsberg       Hugh Sconyers
    Frank Berger            Martin Krainer          Martin Schrode
    Jim Borror              Elias Kritikos          Paul Selick
    Chuck Bower             Corrin Lakeland         Sho Sengoku
    Adrian Bunk             Tim Laursen             Ian Shaw
    Nick Bratby             Myshkin LeVine          Alberta di Silvio
    Craig Campbell          Eli Liang               Peter Sochovsky
    Timothy Chow            Ege Lundgren            Mark Spencer
    John Chuang             Kevin Maguire           Scott Steiner
    Tristan Colgate         Massimiliano Maini      Maik Stiebler
    Olivier Croisille       Giulio De Marco         W. Stroop (Rob)
    Ned Cross               John Marttila           Daisuke Takahashi
    Ian Curtis              Alix Martin             Yoshito Takeuchi
    Bill Davidson           Tom Martin              Jacques Thiriat
    Michael Depreli         William Maslen          Malene Thyssen
    Ian Dunstan             Joachim Matussek        Claes Tornberg
    Max Durbano             Thomas Meyer            Sander van Rijnswou
    Peter Eberhard          Daniel Murphy           Robert-Jan Veldhuizen
    Robert Eberlein         Magnar Naustdalslid     Morten Wang
    Fotis                   Dave Neary              Jeff White
    Dan Fandrich            Rolf Nielsen            JP White
    Kennedy Fraser          Mirori Orange           Mike Whitton
    Ric Gerace              Peter Orum              Chris Wilson
    Michel Grimminck        Roy Passfield           Simon Woodhead
    Eric Groleau            Thomas Patrick          Kit Woolsey
    Jeff Haferman           Billie Patterson        Frank Worrell
    Morten Juul Henriksen   Zvezdan Petkovic        Christopher D. Yep
    Alain Henry             Petri Pitkanen          Anders Zachrison
    Jens Hoefkens           Sam Pottle              Douglas Zare
    Casey Hopkins           Henrik Ravn             Louis Zulli
    Martin Janke


  Credit is also due to those who have published information about backgammon
   playing programs (references will appear here later).  GNU Backgammon has
                              borrowed ideas from:

    Hans Berliner     Rick Janowski     Gerry Tesauro     Douglas Zare
    Chuck Bower       Brian Sheppard    Morten Wang       Michael Zehr

       
    The manual for GNU Backgammon includes a chapter describing the rules of
      backgammon, written by Tom Keith for his Backgammon Galore web site
                             <http://www.bkgm.com/>.


  Library code from the following authors has been included in GNU Backgammon:

               Austin Appleby (the MurmurHash3 hashing function)
     Ulrich Drepper (an implementation of the public domain MD5 algorithm)
            Bob Jenkins (the ISAAC pseudo random number generator)
       Takuji Nishimura and Makoto Matsumoto (the Mersenne Twister PRNG)
                   Brian Paul (the TR tile rendering library)
             Claes Tornberg (the mec match equity table generator)


      If you feel that you're not given credits for your contributions to
         GNU Backgammon please write to one of the developers.


       Please send bug reports for GNU Backgammon to: <bug-gnubg@gnu.org>
