                         GNU Backgammon was written by:

    Joseph Heled            David Montgomery        Gary Wong
    Oeystein Johansen       Jim Segrave
    Johanthan Kinsey        Joern Thyssen
 
                                   Support by:

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

                         Contributors of code include:

    Olivier Baur    Nis Joergensen  Stein Kulseth   Rod Roark
    Holger Bochnig  TAKAHASHI Kaoru Mike Petch

                            Translations by:

     Petr Kadlec (Czech)
     Joern Thyssen (Danish)
     Olivier Baur (French)
     Achim Mueller (German)
     Hlynur Sigurgislason (Icelandic)
     Renzo Campagna (Italian)
     Kaoru TAKAHASHI (Japanese)
     Akif Dinc (Turkish)

             Contributors (of bug reports and suggestions) include:

    Elias Kritikos          Peter Eberhard          Corrin Lakeland
    Misja Alma              Robert Eberlein         Tim Laursen
    Christian Anthon        Fotis                   Eli Liang
    Kazuaki Asai            Kennedy Fraser          Ege Lundgren
    Eric Augustine          Ric Gerace              Kevin Maguire
    Erik Barfoed            Michel Grimminck        Massimiliano Maini
    Ron Barry               Eric Groleau            Giulio De Marco
    Steve Baedke            Jeff Haferman           John Marttila
    Olivier Baur            Morten Juul Henriksen   Alix Martin
    Stefan van den Berg     Alain Henry             William Maslen
    Holger Bochnig          Jens Hoefkens           Thomas Meyer
    Chuck Bower             Martin Janke            Achim Mueller
    Adrian Bunk             Nis Jorgensen           Daniel Murphy
    Nick Bratby             Petr Kadlec             Magnar Naustdalslid
    Renzo Campagna          Neil Kazaross           Dave Neary
    Craig Campbell          Mathias Kegelmann       Rolf Nielsen
    John Chuang             Matija Kejzar           Mirori Orange
    Tristan Colgate         Bert Van Kerckhove      Peter Orum
    Olivier Croisille       James F. Kibler         Roy Passfield
    Ned Cross               Jonathan Kinsey         Thomas Patrick
    Bill Davidson           Johnny Kirk             Billie Patterson
    Michael Depreli         Gerhard Knop            Mike Petch
    Ian Dunstan             Robert Konigsberg       Zvezdan Petkovic
    Max Durbano             Martin Krainer          Nardy Pillards


  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)
       Takuji Nishimura and Makoto Matsumoto (the Mersenne Twister PRNG)
                Gerry Tesauro (the "pubeval" position evaluator)


      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>
