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-===============================================================================
-              ACEGI SECURITY SYSTEM FOR SPRING - CONTRIBUTORS
-===============================================================================
-
-The following people and organisations are gratefully acknowledged for their
-contributions to the Acegi Security System for Spring project:
-
-* Ben Alex of Acegi Technology Pty Limited (http://www.acegi.com.au) donated
-  the original code and currently maintains the project.
-
-* Cameron Braid contributed support for configuration via Commons Attributes.
-
-* François Beausoleil is a current member of the development team.
-
-* Colin Sampaleanu is a current member of the development team.
-
-* Carlos Sanchez is a current member of the development team.
-
-* Luke Taylor is a current member of the development team and maintains a
-  public automated Maven build at the Monkey Machine
-  (http://www.monkeymachine.co.uk/acegi).
-
-* Patrick Burleson contributed a patch for Weblogic support.
-
-* Wesley Hall contributed patches to authentication exception handling.
-
-* Scott Evans contributed improvements to the tablig package.
-
-* Travis Gregg contributed a fix to EH-CACHE usage after web context refresh.
-
-* Ray Krueger is a current member of the development team.
-
-* Karel Miarka contributed a fix for EH-CACHE NPEs, additional event
-  handling for DaoAuthenticationProvider, and the 
-  PasswordAuthenticationProvider-related (including LDAP DAO) classes.
-
-* James Monaghan contributed the AcegiRemoteInvocation support classes.
-
-* Andrew Petro contributed documentation improvements.
-
-* Anyone else I've forgotten (please let me know so I can correct this).
-
-Plus of course all the people who use the project and provide feedback, bug
-reports, suggestions and help fellow users.
-
-$Id$