opencpn:opencpn_user_manual:license_and_authors
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# License and Authors

The bulk of OpenCPN is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or, at your option, any later version. However, the project also reuses code with other licenses, see the file LICENSING.

David S Register - Lead Developer

Pavel Kalian - Sean D'Epagnier - J.P. Joubert
Thomas Höckne - Frederick Gleason - Will Camp
Hubert Kleis - Renate Rossner - Didier Gautheron
Caesar Schinas - Jesper Weissglas - Gunther Pilz
Flavius Bindea - Tim Francis - Alan Bleasby
Piotr Carlson - Jean-Eudes Onfray - Anders Lund
Anders Lund - Gordon Mau - Alan Bleasby
Gordon Mau - Kathleen Boswell - Mark A Sikes
Thomas Haller - Richard Smith - David Herring
Philip Lange - Ron Kuris - Julian Smart
Robert Roebling - Sylvain Duclos - Manish P. Pagey
David Flater - Frank Warmerdam - Mike Higgins
Samuel R. Blackburn - Atul Narkhede - Jan C. Depner
Stuart Cunningham - John F. Waers - Carsten Tschach
Ed Williams - Philippe Bekaert - Robert Lipe

David S Register OpenCPN Lead Developer

Pavel Kalian | S52 Rasterization Improvements, Plugins
Sean D'Epagnier | OpenGL Architecture, Plugins
J.P. Joubert | GRIB PlugIn enhancements
Thomas Höckne | Documentation and Wiki support
Frederick Gleason | Documentation & Wiki support, Plugins
Will Kamp | Website & Toolbar Icon design
Didier Gautheron | App debgging and optimization
Caesar Schinas | User Interface and OS X improvements
Jesper Weissglas | Vector Chart Rendering
Jean-Eudes Onfray | Dashboard and Dialog enhancements
Kathleen Boswell | Website, Website Design & Icon design
Flavius Bindea | CM93 Offset and AIS enhancements
Gunther Pilz | Windows Installer enhancements
Alan Bleasby | Garmin jeeps module
Piotr Carlson | General usability enhancements
Anders Lund | RouteManagerDialog
Gordon Mau | OpenCPN Documentation
Tim Francis | OpenCPN Documentation
Mark A Sikes | OpenCPN CoDeveloper
Thomas Haller | GPX Import/Export Implementation
Richard Smith | OpenCPN CoDeveloper, MacOSX
David Herring | OpenCPN CoDeveloper, MacOSX
Philip Lange | OpenCPN Documentation
Ron Kuris | wxWidgets Support
Julian Smart, | wxWidget Author
Robert Roebling | wxWidgets Author
Sylvain Duclos | S52 Presentation Library code
Manish P. Pagey | Serial Port Library
David Flater | XTIDE tide and current code
Frank Warmerdam | GDAL Class Library
Mike Higgins | BSB Chart Format Detail
Samuel R. Blackburn | NMEA0183 Class Library
Atul Narkhede | Polygon Graphics utilities
Jan C. Depner | WVS Chart Library
Stuart Cunningham | BSB Chart Georeferencing Algorithms
John F. Waers | UTM Conversion Algorithms
Carsten Tschach | UTM Conversion Algorithms
Ed Williams | Great Circle Formulary
Philippe Bekaert | CIE→RGB Color Conversion Matrix
Robert Lipe | Garmin USB GPS Interface