| The following authors assigned copyright on their work to the Free | 
 | Software Foundation: | 
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 | Yoshinori K. Okuji designed and implemented the initial version. | 
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 | Jeroen Dekkers added initrd support, Multiboot support, and fixed bugs | 
 | in ext2fs. | 
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 | Marco Gerards added ext2fs support, grub-emu, a new command-line | 
 | engine, and fixed many bugs. | 
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 | Omniflux added terminfo and serial support. | 
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 | Vincent Pelletier added Sparc64 support. | 
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 | Hollis Blanchard implemented many parts of PowerPC support. | 
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 | Tomas Ebenlendr added the command chainloader into the normal mode, | 
 | fixed some bugs. | 
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 | Guillem Jover merged architecture-independent ELF support code. | 
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 | Vesa Jaaskelainen added VBE support. |