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+Authors of libapenetwork:
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+* Anthony CATEL		First version
+* Nicolas TRANI		Build system
+
+Other:
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+* Peter REIJNDERS		Minor things and nagging
+
+Snippets/external:
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+* Christophe DEVINE	sha1 implementation
+* Austin APPLEBY    MurmurHash2
+* sry					      utf8 <-> buffer