The following contributors hold Copyright (C) over their respective portions of code and documentation:
[Author of original version; maintained through version 2.0:]
1998-2001 [alex] Alexander Kuznetsov <alexan@users.sourceforge.net>
[Author of ~90% of current code, most of current documentation; maintained through version 3.3:]
2002-2007 [dsr] David S. Rushby <woodsplitter@rocketmail.com>
[Finishing touch to v3.3; Current maintainer:]
2008-2009 [paci] Pavel Cisar <pcisar@ibphoenix.cz>
[Significant Contributors:]
2001-2002 [maz] Marek Isalski <kinterbasdb@maz.nu>
Marek made important first steps in removing the limitations of version 2.0 in preparation for version 3.0.2001 [eac] Evgeny A. Cherkashin <eugeneai@icc.ru>
Evgeny wrote the first version of the distutils build script, which was included in a 2.x point release.2001-2002 [janez] Janez Jere <janez.jere@void.si>
Janez contributed several bugfixes, including fixes for the date and time parameter conversion code in preparation for version 3.0.
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