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-                                 PSPP Authors
-                                       
-     * Ben Pfaff wrote most of the program and the manual.
+We wish to thank current active contributors to PSPP:
 
-     * John Williams originally wrote the T-TEST procedure, which was 
-       subsequently re-written by John Darrington
+* Ben Pfaff wrote the initial program and manual, which comprises the
+majority of the current code. Ben continues to contribute and 
+most of the core libraries which ensure that PSPP runs with optimal
+speed are his work.
+
+* John Darrington wrote the graphical user interface, and the T-TEST,
+ONEWAY, EXAMINE, RANK and  NPAR TESTS commands, implemented support
+for long variable names, psql and gnumeric and made numerous revisions
+to other modules.   
+
+* Jason Stover contributed statistical and numerical functionality,
+including lib/gslextras and the linear regression features. Jason 
+is also an important contributor to GSL, which is used by PSPP. 
+
+
+We also thank past contributors:
+
+* John Williams wrote an initial draft of the T-TEST procedure.
+
+* Michael Kiefte contributed bug fixes and other enhancements.
+
+* Patrick Kobly contributed bug fixes and other enhancements.
+
+* Rob van Son wrote the original version of the routine for
+  calculation of the significance of the Wilcoxon matched pairs signed
+  rank statistic used by the NPAR TEST command.
 
-     * John Darrington wrote the T-TEST ONEWAY and EXAMINE procedures, 
-       implemented support for long variable names and made numerous 
-       revisions to other modules.