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+This file contains a list of people who have made large contributions
+to the public version of Protocol Buffers.
+
+Original Protocol Buffers design and implementation:
+ Sanjay Ghemawat <sanjay@google.com>
+ Jeff Dean <jeff@google.com>
+ Daniel Dulitz <daniel@google.com>
+ Craig Silverstein
+ Paul Haahr <haahr@google.com>
+ Corey Anderson <corin@google.com>
+ (and many others)
+
+Proto2 C++ and Java primary author:
+ Kenton Varda <kenton@google.com>
+
+Proto2 Python primary authors:
+ Will Robinson <robinson@google.com>
+ Petar Petrov <petar@google.com>
+
+Large code contributions:
+ Joseph Schorr <jschorr@google.com>
+ Wenbo Zhu <wenboz@google.com>
+
+Large quantity of code reviews:
+ Scott Bruce <sbruce@google.com>
+ Frank Yellin
+ Neal Norwitz <nnorwitz@google.com>
+ Jeffrey Yasskin <jyasskin@google.com>
+ Ambrose Feinstein <ambrose@google.com>
+
+Documentation:
+ Lisa Carey <lcarey@google.com>
+
+Maven packaging:
+ Gregory Kick <gak@google.com>
