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+This file lists all people who have have a major contribution to JsSOM or a
+related SOM implementation.
+
+SOM was originally implemented in Java at the University of Aarhus (Denmark) in
+2001/2002. The implementation of SOM was done by Jakob Roland Andersen, Kasper
+Verdich Lund, Lars Bak, Mads Torgersen, and Ulrik Pagh Schultz. They also wrote
+the original versions of the SOM Smalltalk libraries, test suites, and
+benchmarks, that are (in changed and extended versions) bundled with JsSOM.
+
+JsSOM is a port and simplification of TruffleSOM and RTruffleSOM to JavaScript,
+which were all written by Stefan Marr.