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The following contributors hold Copyright (c) over their respective portions 
of code and documentation:

The main portion of initial code (~95%); Current maintainer: 

    Pavel Cisar <pcisar@ibphoenix.cz>

Contributors:

[Initial trace API & nbackup support; Python 3 support]
    Philippe Makowski <pmakowski@espelida.com>

Some code in inital version is Python code from KInterbasDB 3.3.0. 
As it's very hard to find out who exactly was the original author of used code, 
here is the full list of KInterbasDB contributors:

[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; New Documentation; Current maintainer:]

    2008-2011 [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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