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+MAIN DEVELOPERS :
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+
+Andreas Huggel     <ahuggel at gmx dot net>                : Lead developer and coordinator.
+
+CURRENT CONTRIBUTORS :
+--------------------
+
+Gilles Caulier     <caulier dot gilles at gmail dot com>   : Minolta, Sony, PNG, JPEG2000, PGF, CMake, i18n.
+Brad Schick        <brad at robotbattle dot com>           : IPTC
+Marco Piovanelli   <marco dot piovanelli at pobox dot com> : BMP, TGA
+Carsten Pfeiffer   <pfeiffer at kde dot org>               : Command line tool
+Volker Grabsch     <vog at notjusthosting dot com>         : JPG
+Michael Ulbrich    <mul at rentapacs dot de>               : JPG
+Will Stokes        <wstokes at gmail dot com>              : Olympus
+Jeff Costlow       <costlow at gmail dot com>              : ORF
+Michal Cihar       <michal at cihar dot com>               : Pentax
+Vladimir Nadvornik <nadvornik at suse dot cz>              : Preview extraction
+
+