<appendix><title>Credits</title>
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<para>The success of <application>apcupsd</application> is due to the many
people that helped in development, testing and in many other
ways.</para>
<para>Thank all the developers that worked hard to make
APCUPSDone of the best piece of software for
UPSmanagement.</para>
<sect1><title>Contributors</title>
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<term>Current Code Maintainer and Project Manager:</term>
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<para>Kern Sibbald (kern at sibbald dot com)</para>
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</varlistentry>
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<term>RPM Packager:</term>
<listitem>
<para>D. Scott Barninger (barninger at fairfieldcomputers dot com)</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Super USB bug fixer:</term>
<listitem>
<para>Adam Kropelin (akropel1 at rochester dot rr dot com)</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>CGI and HTML fixer:</term>
<listitem>
<para>William King (wrking at dadaboom dot com)</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Project Starter and Former Code Maintainer:</term>
<listitem>
<para>Andre Hedrick (andre at linux-ide.org)</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Former Code Maintainer and Project Manager:</term>
<listitem>
<para>Riccardo Facchetti (riccardo at master.oasi.gpa.it)</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Serial Communications:</term>
<listitem>
<para>Andre Hedrick (andre at linux-ide.org)</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>2.0 User's Manual:</term>
<listitem>
<para>Eric S. Raymond (esr at thyrsus.com)</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
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<term>Alpha Port:</term>
<listitem>
<para>Kern Sibbald (kern at sibbald dot com)</para>
<para>J. Rochate (jrochate at ualg.pt) testing and machine
loan</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Caldera:</term>
<listitem>
<para>John Pinner (john at clocksoft.com)</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>HP-UX Port</term>
<listitem>
<para>Carl Erhorn (Carl_Erhorn at hyperion.com)</para>
<para>Robert K Nelson (rnelson at airflowsciences.com)</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>SOLARIS Port:</term>
<listitem>
<para>Carl Erhorn (Carl_Erhorn at hyperion.com)</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
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<term>OpenBSD Port:</term>
<listitem>
<para>Devin Reade (gdr at gno.org)</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>NetBSD Port:</term>
<listitem>
<para>Neil Darlow (neil at darlow.co.uk)</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Win32 Port:</term>
<listitem>
<para>Kern Sibbald (kern at sibbald dot com)</para>
<para>Paul Z. Stagner (paul.stagner at charterco.com) testing</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>WEB Interfaces:</term>
<listitem>
<para>Kern Sibbald (kern at sibbald dot com)</para>
<para>Joseph Acosta (joeja at mindspring.com)</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Apcupsd Support and Knowledge Base:</term>
<listitem>
<para>Brian Schau (Brian.Schau at compaq.com)</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Hard Core Coders:</term>
<listitem>
<para>Riccardo Facchetti (riccardo at master.oasi.gpa.it)</para>
<para>Kern Sibbald (kern at sibbald dot com)</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
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<term>Part Time Coders:</term>
<listitem>
<para>Jonathan H N Chin (jc254 at newton.cam.ac.uk)</para>
<para>Andre Hedrick (andre at linux-ide.org)</para>
<para>Brian Schau (Brian.Schau at compaq.com)</para>
<para>Carl Erhorn (Carl_Erhorn at hyperion.com)</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
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<term>Distribution Maintainers:</term>
<listitem>
<para>Alpha: Kern Sibbald (kern at sibbald dot com) temp</para>
<para>Debian: Leon Breedt (ljb at debian.org)</para>
<para>FreeBSD/BSDi: Jeff Palmer (scorpio at drkshdw.org)</para>
<para>NetBSD: Neil Darlow (neil at darlow.co.uk)</para>
<para>HP-UX: Carl Erhorn (Carl_Erhorn at hyperion.com),
Robert K Nelson (rnelson at airflowsciences.com)</para>
<para>OpenBSD: Devin Reade (gdr at gno.org)</para>
<para>RedHat: Kern Sibbald (kern at sibbald dot com)</para>
<para>Slackware: Devin Reade (gdr at gno.org)</para>
<para>Sparc Solaris: Carl Erhorn (Carl_Erhorn at hyperion.com)</para>
<para>SUSE: Riccardo Facchetti (riccardo at master.oasi.gpa.it)</para>
<para>Win32: Kern Sibbald (kern at sibbald dot com)</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
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<term>Project Discussions:</term>
<listitem>
<para><ulink url="wb_mailto:apcupsd-users@lists.sourceforge.net">APCUPSD
Mailing List</ulink></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<para>Thanks to American Power Conversion (APC) who helped in giving
technical information on their UPSes.</para>
<para>A special thanks to APC who gave me (Riccardo) a Smart
UPS1400 INET when my old Back UPS v/s 650's battery died. Thank
you guys, your help has been invaluable.</para>
<para>Thanks to all the users that send bug reports and
suggestions:we need your help.</para>
<para>Thanks to every one I forgot here. If you feel Ihave
forgot your name, please don't hesitate to tell me.</para>
<para>Miquel van Smoorenburg, The Doctor What, Pavel Korensky,
and Russell Kroll <rkroll at exploits.org> for the CGI
programs.
Jonathan Benson <jbenson at technologist.com> for adapting
the upsstatus.cgi program to work with <application>apcupsd</application>
</para>
<para>The gd 1.2 Image Library used in our CGI programs is copyright
1994, 1995, Quest Protein Database Center, Cold Spring Harbor Labs.
Permission granted to copy and distribute this work provided that
this notice remains intact. Credit for the library must be given to
the Quest Protein Database Center, Cold Spring Harbor Labs, in all
derived works. This does not affect your ownership of the derived
work itself, and the intent is to assure proper credit for Quest,
not to interfere with your use of gd.</para>
<para>gd 1.2 was written by Thomas Boutell and is currently
distributed by boutell.com, Inc.</para>
<para>Parts of the VNC project by ATT (cool code) were used as
templates for our Win32 code, see: <ulink
url="http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc">http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc</ulink></para>
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<sect1><title>Disclaimer: NO WARRANTY</title>
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OR CORRECTION.</para>
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