                         GNU Backgammon was written by:

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

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

                         Contributors of code include:

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

                            Translations by:

     Petr Kadlec (Czech)
     Joern Thyssen (Danish)
     Olivier Baur (French)
     Achim Mueller (German)
     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:

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


  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:

     Ulrich Drepper (an implementation of the public domain MD5 algorithm)
   Bob Jenkins (the ISAAC pseudo random number generator, hashing functions)
       Takuji Nishimura and Makoto Matsumoto (the Mersenne Twister PRNG)
                Gerry Tesauro (the "pubeval" position evaluator)
             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>
