                         GNU Backgammon was written by:

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

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

                         Contributors of code include:

    Olivier Baur            Petr Kadlec             Ingo Macherius
    Holger Bochnig          Isaac Keslassy          Jeremy Moore
    Guido Flohr             Kaoru Takahashi         Rod Roark
    Nis Joergensen          Stein Kulseth           Aaron Tikuisis

                            Translations by:

     Petr Kadlec (Czech)
     Joern Thyssen (Danish)
     Matti Kamppinen (Finnish)
     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)
     Fernando García García (Spanish)
     Akif Dinc (Turkish)

             Contributors (of bug reports and suggestions) include:

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


  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
                             <https://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)
         Mutsuo Saito 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>
