Authors of pbzip2
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Jeff Gilchrist (http://gilchrist.ca/jeff/)

- Using modified producer/consumer threading code from
  Andrae Muys <andrae@humbug.org.au.au>
- Uses libbzip2 by Julian Seward (http://www.bzip.org/)


Contributions
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Bryan Stillwell <bryan@bokeoa.com> - code cleanup, RPM spec, and prep work for inclusion in Fedora Extras

Dru Lemley [http://lemley.net/smp.html] - help with large file support

Kir Kolyshkin <kir@sacred.ru> - autodetection for # of CPUs

Joergen Ramskov <joergen@ramskov.org> - initial version of man page

Peter Cordes <peter@cordes.ca> - code cleanup

Kurt Fitzner <kfitzner@excelcia.org> - port to Windows compilers and decompression throttling

Oliver Falk <oliver@linux-kernel.at> - RPM spec update

Jindrich Novy <jnovy@redhat.com> - code cleanup and bug fixes

Benjamin Reed <ranger@befunk.com> - autodetection for # of CPUs in OSX

Chris Dearman <chris@mips.com> - fixed pthreads race condition that led to pthread resources issues when processing large numbers of files and random segfaults

Richard Russon <ntfs@flatcap.org> - help fix decompression bug

Paul Pluzhnikov <paul@parasoft.com> - fixed minor memory leak

Anbal Monsalve Salazar <anibal@debian.org> - creates and maintains Debian packages

Steve Christensen - creates and maintains Solaris packages (sunfreeware.com)

Alessio Cervellin - creates and maintains Solaris packages (blastwave.org)

Ying-Chieh Liao <ijliao@FreeBSD.org> - created the FreeBSD port

Andrew Pantyukhin <sat@FreeBSD.org> - maintains the FreeBSD ports and willing to resolve any FreeBSD-related problems

Roland Illig <rillig@NetBSD.org> - creates and maintains NetBSD packages



Specials thanks for suggestions and testing
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Phillippe Welsh, James Terhune, Dru Lemley, Bryan Stillwell, George Chalissery, Kir Kolyshkin, Madhu Kangara, Mike Furr, Joergen Ramskov, Kurt Fitzner, Peter Cordes, Oliver Falk, Jindrich Novy, Benjamin Reed, Chris Dearman, Richard Russon, Anbal Monsalve Salazar, Jim Leonard, Paul Pluzhniko, Robert Archard, Coran Fisher, Ken Takusagawa, David Pyke.
