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+# List of AUTHORS who contributed over time to the TrinityCore project
+
+## Warning
+The code of TrinityCore is shipped as it is without any form of warranty,
+and - except for third party libraries - licensed under the GPL 2.0,
+which you can read from the file "COPYING"
+
+## Point of current development
+The project is currently hosted at https://www.trinitycore.org/ and developed under https://github.com/TrinityCore
+
+## History of development
+Development of this project dates back to 2004, and was developed under various umbrellas over time:
+* WoW Daemon Team, 2004
+* MaNGOS project, 2005-2008, located at http://www.mangosproject.org
+* MaNGOS project, 2008-2011, located at http://getmangos.com
+* SD2 project, 2008-2009, located at http://getmangos.com
+* TrinityCore, 2008-2020, located at https://www.trinitycore.org/
+
+## Authorship of the code
+Authorship is assigned for each commit within the git history, which is stored in these git repositories:
+* github.com/cmangos/mangos-svn (History from MaNGOS project from 2005-2008, originally hosted at http://mangos.svn.sourceforge.net)
+* github.com/TrinityCore/TrinityCore
+
+Unfortunately we have no detailed information of the history of the WoWD project;
+if somebody can provide information, please contact us, so that we can make this history available
+
+## Exceptions with third party libraries
+The third party libraries have their own way of addressing authorship, and the authorship of commits importing/ updating
+a third party library reflects who did the importing instead of who wrote the code within the commit.
+
+The Authors of third party libraries are not explicitly mentioned, and usually are possible to obtain from the files belonging to the third party libraries.
+
+## Authors List:
+
+*Please inform us, if you find somebody who is missing!*
+
+= TrinityCore -- Thanks/credits file =
+
+TrinityCore is a derivation/rewrite of MaNGOS, which was originally written
+by Team Python and the WoW Daemon Team. Many people further helped Trinity Core
+by submitting bug reports, code patches, and suggestions. Thanks to the
+community!
+
+Special thanks should go out to the WowwoW team. We have gained help from
+them many times in the creation of this project. Keep up the good work guys.
+
+Thanks to the ScriptDev2 team (http://www.scriptdev2.com) for scripts.
+
+Thanks to the WCell team (especially Ralek) for research on realm reconnect
+sequence, item scaling stats algorithm, gameobject rotation issues.
+
+Thanks go out to the following people for various patches/code (there may be duplicates or invalid names, most of them
+were extracted from old commits):
+
+- 0xFuture
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+- Aaron126
+- Abdollah Hasan
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+- Albrecht de Endrau
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