Contributors to the MySQL distribution in random order:

- David J. Hughes
For the heroic effort to make a shareware SQL database.  We at TCX
started with mSQL but found that it couldn't satisfy our purposes so
instead we wrote a SQL interface to our application builder UNIREG.
mysqladmin & mysql are programs that were largely influenced by their
mSQL counterparts. I (Monty) have put a lot of effort into making the
MySQL syntax a superset of mSQL.  Much of the API:s ideas are borrowed
from mSQL to make it easy to port free mSQL programs to MySQL. MySQL
doesn't contain any code from mSQL.  Two files (insert_test.c and
select_test.c) in the distribution are non copyrighted files from the
mSQL distribution (copyrighted David J. Hughes). These are included as
a example of the changes that must be done to change from mSQL to
MySQL.

- Fred Fish
For his excellent C debugging and trace library. Monty has made a
number of smaller improvements to the library (speed and additional
options).

- Richard A. O'Keefe
For his public domain string library.

- Henry Spencer
For his regex library, used in 'WHERE column REGEXP regexp'.

- FSF
From whom we got an excellent compiler (gcc) and for their libc from
which I have borrowed strto.c to get some code working in Linux. Also
readline for the client.

- FSF & The XEmacs development team
For a really great editor/environment used by almost everybody at tcx/detron.

- Igor Romanenko (igor@frog.kiev.ua)
mysqldump  (Previously msqldump but ported and enhanced by Monty)

- Tim Bunce, Alligator Descartes
For the DBD (perl) interface.

- Andreas Koenig <a.koenig@mind.de>
For the perl interface to MySQL

- Eugene Chan <eugene@acenet.com.sg>
For porting PHP to MySQL.

- Michael J. Miller Jr. <mke@terrapin.turbolift.com>
For the growing MySQL manual. And a lot of spelling/language fixes for
the FAQ.

- Giovanni Maruzzelli <maruzz@matrice.it>
For porting iODBC (unix ODBC).

- Chris Provenzano
Portable user level pthreads. From the copyright: This product
includes software developed by Chris Provenzano, the University of
California, Berkeley, and contributors.  We are currently using
version 1_60_beta6 patched by Monty (se mit-pthreads/Changes-mysql).

- Zarko Mocnik <zarko.mocnik@dem.si>
Sorting for Slovenian language and the cset.tgz module for easier adding
of other character sets.

- Yves.Carlier@rug.ac.be
mysqlaccess ; A program to show how the access right for a user.

- Rhys Jones <rhys@wales.com> (And GWE Technologies Limite)
For the JODBC ; A module to extract data from MySQL with a Java client.

- James Cooper <pixel@organic.com>
For setting up a searchable mailing list archive at his site.

- Rick_Mehalick <Rick_Mehalick@i-o.com>
For xmysql; A X client for MySQL.

- Doug Sisk <sisk@wix.com>
For providing rpm versions of MySQL.

- Per Eric Olsson
For more or less constructive criticism and for REAL testing of the
dynamic record format.

- Allan Larrson (The BOSS at TCX)
For all the time he has allowed Monty to spend on this 'maybe useful'
tool (MySQL).  Dedicated user (and bug finder) of UNIREG & MySQL.

- David Axmark
- GNU autoconf & automake support.
- And parts of all the text files (README, FAQ, INSTALL* ...).
- Our original portability code (more than 10 years
  old now). Nowdays only some parts of mysys are left.
- Our Mail master.
- Our in house 'free' software lawyer.
- Mailing list maintainer.
- The licensing stuff.
- Converting/Rewriting the FAQ to TeXInfo.
- Someone for monty to call in the middle of the night when he just got
  that new feature to work :-)

- Michael Widenius (Monty)
I have only written the following parts of MySQL:
- New functions for the string library
- Most of the mysys library.
- The nisam library (A B-three index file handler with key compression and
  different record formats)
- The heap library. A memory table system with our superior full dynamic
  hashing. In use since 1981 and published around 1984.
- UNIREG A curses based application tool with lot of utilities.
- UNIREG manuals (only in Swedish yet)
- MySQL. All the main code in MySQL.
- replace (Look into it, it's COOL!)
- myodbc, the ODBC driver for Windows95.
- Porting of mysqlperl and the DBD/DBI interfaces. Porting of DB2mysql.
- Fixing bugs in MIT threads to get it to work for MySQL.  

Other contributors and testers:
 James H. Thompson, Maurizio Menghini, Wojciech Tryc, Luca Berra,
 Zarko Mocnik, Wim Bonis, Elmar Haneke, jehamby@lightside,
 psmith@BayNetworks.COM

And lots of bug report/patches from the folks on the mailing list.
