### 1.8.1 Contributors to MySQL

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 Although Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates own all copyrights in the `MySQL server` and the `MySQL manual`, we wish to recognize those who have made contributions of one kind or another to the `MySQL distribution`. Contributors are listed here, in somewhat random order:

* Gianmassimo Vigazzola `<[qwerg@mbox.vol.it](mailto:qwerg@mbox.vol.it)>` or `<[qwerg@tin.it](mailto:qwerg@tin.it)>`

   The initial port to Win32/NT.

* Per Eric Olsson

   For constructive criticism and real testing of the dynamic record format.

* Irena Pancirov `<[irena@mail.yacc.it](mailto:irena@mail.yacc.it)>`

   Win32 port with Borland compiler. `mysqlshutdown.exe` and `mysqlwatch.exe`.

* David J. Hughes

   For the effort to make a shareware SQL database. At TcX, the predecessor of MySQL AB, we started with `mSQL`, but found that it couldn't satisfy our purposes so instead we wrote an SQL interface to our application builder Unireg. [**mysqladmin**](mysqladmin.html) and [**mysql**](mysql.html) client are programs that were largely influenced by their `mSQL` counterparts. We have put a lot of effort into making the MySQL syntax a superset of `mSQL`. Many of the API's ideas are borrowed from `mSQL` to make it easy to port free `mSQL` programs to the MySQL API. The MySQL software doesn't contain any code from `mSQL`. Two files in the distribution (`client/insert_test.c` and `client/select_test.c`) are based on the corresponding (noncopyrighted) files in the `mSQL` distribution, but are modified as examples showing the changes necessary to convert code from `mSQL` to MySQL Server. (`mSQL` is copyrighted David J. Hughes.)

* Patrick Lynch

   For helping us acquire [http://www.mysql.com/](http://www.mysql.com/).

* Fred Lindberg

   For setting up qmail to handle the MySQL mailing list and for the incredible help we got in managing the MySQL mailing lists.

* Igor Romanenko `<[igor@frog.kiev.ua](mailto:igor@frog.kiev.ua)>`

  [**mysqldump**](mysqldump.html) (previously `msqldump`, but ported and enhanced by Monty).

* Yuri Dario

   For keeping up and extending the MySQL OS/2 port.

* Tim Bunce

   Author of **mysqlhotcopy**.

* Zarko Mocnik `<[zarko.mocnik@dem.si](mailto:zarko.mocnik@dem.si)>`

   Sorting for Slovenian language.

* "TAMITO" `<[tommy@valley.ne.jp](mailto:tommy@valley.ne.jp)>`

   The `_MB` character set macros and the ujis and sjis character sets.

* Joshua Chamas `<[joshua@chamas.com](mailto:joshua@chamas.com)>`

   Base for concurrent insert, extended date syntax, debugging on NT, and answering on the MySQL mailing list.

* Yves Carlier `<[Yves.Carlier@rug.ac.be](mailto:Yves.Carlier@rug.ac.be)>`

  **mysqlaccess**, a program to show the access rights for a user.

* Rhys Jones `<[rhys@wales.com](mailto:rhys@wales.com)>` (And GWE Technologies Limited)

   For one of the early JDBC drivers.

* Dr Xiaokun Kelvin ZHU `<[X.Zhu@brad.ac.uk](mailto:X.Zhu@brad.ac.uk)>`

   Further development of one of the early JDBC drivers and other MySQL-related Java tools.

* James Cooper `<[pixel@organic.com](mailto:pixel@organic.com)>`

   For setting up a searchable mailing list archive at his site.

* Rick Mehalick `<[Rick_Mehalick@i-o.com](mailto:Rick_Mehalick@i-o.com)>`

   For `xmysql`, a graphical X client for MySQL Server.

* Doug Sisk `<[sisk@wix.com](mailto:sisk@wix.com)>`

   For providing RPM packages of MySQL for Red Hat Linux.

* Diemand Alexander V. `<[axeld@vial.ethz.ch](mailto:axeld@vial.ethz.ch)>`

   For providing RPM packages of MySQL for Red Hat Linux-Alpha.

* Antoni Pamies Olive `<[toni@readysoft.es](mailto:toni@readysoft.es)>`

   For providing RPM versions of a lot of MySQL clients for Intel and SPARC.

* Jay Bloodworth `<[jay@pathways.sde.state.sc.us](mailto:jay@pathways.sde.state.sc.us)>`

   For providing RPM versions for MySQL 3.21.

* David Sacerdote `<[davids@secnet.com](mailto:davids@secnet.com)>`

   Ideas for secure checking of DNS host names.

* Wei-Jou Chen `<[jou@nematic.ieo.nctu.edu.tw](mailto:jou@nematic.ieo.nctu.edu.tw)>`

   Some support for Chinese(BIG5) characters.

* Wei He `<[hewei@mail.ied.ac.cn](mailto:hewei@mail.ied.ac.cn)>`

   A lot of functionality for the Chinese(GBK) character set.

* Jan Pazdziora `<[adelton@fi.muni.cz](mailto:adelton@fi.muni.cz)>`

   Czech sorting order.

* Zeev Suraski `<[bourbon@netvision.net.il](mailto:bourbon@netvision.net.il)>`

  `FROM_UNIXTIME()` time formatting, `ENCRYPT()` functions, and **bison** advisor. Active mailing list member.

* Luuk de Boer `<[luuk@wxs.nl](mailto:luuk@wxs.nl)>`

   Ported (and extended) the benchmark suite to `DBI`/`DBD`. Have been of great help with `crash-me` and running benchmarks. Some new date functions. The **mysql\_setpermission** script.

* Alexis Mikhailov `<[root@medinf.chuvashia.su](mailto:root@medinf.chuvashia.su)>`

   Loadable functions; [`CREATE FUNCTION`](create-function.html) and [`DROP FUNCTION`](drop-function.html).

* Andreas F. Bobak `<[bobak@relog.ch](mailto:bobak@relog.ch)>`

   The `AGGREGATE` extension to loadable functions.

* Ross Wakelin `<[R.Wakelin@march.co.uk](mailto:R.Wakelin@march.co.uk)>`

   Help to set up InstallShield for MySQL-Win32.

* Jethro Wright III `<[jetman@li.net](mailto:jetman@li.net)>`

   The `libmysql.dll` library.

* James Pereria `<[jpereira@iafrica.com](mailto:jpereira@iafrica.com)>`

   Mysqlmanager, a Win32 GUI tool for administering MySQL Servers.

* Curt Sampson `<[cjs@portal.ca](mailto:cjs@portal.ca)>`

   Porting of MIT-pthreads to NetBSD/Alpha and NetBSD 1.3/i386.

* Martin Ramsch `<[m.ramsch@computer.org](mailto:m.ramsch@computer.org)>`

   Examples in the MySQL Tutorial.

* Steve Harvey

   For making **mysqlaccess** more secure.

* Konark IA-64 Centre of Persistent Systems Private Limited

   Help with the Win64 port of the MySQL server.

* Albert Chin-A-Young.

   Configure updates for Tru64, large file support and better TCP wrappers support.

* John Birrell

   Emulation of `pthread_mutex()` for OS/2.

* Benjamin Pflugmann

   Extended `MERGE` tables to handle `INSERTS`. Active member on the MySQL mailing lists.

* Jocelyn Fournier

   Excellent spotting and reporting innumerable bugs (especially in the MySQL 4.1 subquery code).

* Marc Liyanage

   Maintaining the OS X packages and providing invaluable feedback on how to create OS X packages.

* Robert Rutherford

   Providing invaluable information and feedback about the QNX port.

* Previous developers of NDB Cluster

   Lots of people were involved in various ways summer students, master thesis students, employees. In total more than 100 people so too many to mention here. Notable name is Ataullah Dabaghi who up until 1999 contributed around a third of the code base. A special thanks also to developers of the AXE system which provided much of the architectural foundations for NDB Cluster with blocks, signals and crash tracing functionality. Also credit should be given to those who believed in the ideas enough to allocate of their budgets for its development from 1992 to present time.

* Google Inc.

   We wish to recognize Google Inc. for contributions to the MySQL distribution: Mark Callaghan's SMP Performance patches and other patches.

 Other contributors, bugfinders, and testers: James H. Thompson, Maurizio Menghini, Wojciech Tryc, Luca Berra, Zarko Mocnik, Wim Bonis, Elmar Haneke, `<[jehamby@lightside](mailto:jehamby@lightside)>`, `<[psmith@BayNetworks.com](mailto:psmith@BayNetworks.com)>`, `<[duane@connect.com.au](mailto:duane@connect.com.au)>`, Ted Deppner `<[ted@psyber.com](mailto:ted@psyber.com)>`, Mike Simons, Jaakko Hyvatti.

 And lots of bug report/patches from the folks on the mailing list.

 A big tribute goes to those that help us answer questions on the MySQL mailing lists:

* Daniel Koch `<[dkoch@amcity.com](mailto:dkoch@amcity.com)>`

   Irix setup.

* Luuk de Boer `<[luuk@wxs.nl](mailto:luuk@wxs.nl)>`

   Benchmark questions.

* Tim Sailer `<[tps@users.buoy.com](mailto:tps@users.buoy.com)>`

  `DBD::mysql` questions.

* Boyd Lynn Gerber `<[gerberb@zenez.com](mailto:gerberb@zenez.com)>`

   SCO-related questions.

* Richard Mehalick `<[RM186061@shellus.com](mailto:RM186061@shellus.com)>`

  `xmysql`-related questions and basic installation questions.

* Zeev Suraski `<[bourbon@netvision.net.il](mailto:bourbon@netvision.net.il)>`

   Apache module configuration questions (log & auth), PHP-related questions, SQL syntax-related questions and other general questions.

* Francesc Guasch `<[frankie@citel.upc.es](mailto:frankie@citel.upc.es)>`

   General questions.

* Jonathan J Smith `<[jsmith@wtp.net](mailto:jsmith@wtp.net)>`

   Questions pertaining to OS-specifics with Linux, SQL syntax, and other things that might need some work.

* David Sklar `<[sklar@student.net](mailto:sklar@student.net)>`

   Using MySQL from PHP and Perl.

* Alistair MacDonald `<[A.MacDonald@uel.ac.uk](mailto:A.MacDonald@uel.ac.uk)>`

   Is flexible and can handle Linux and perhaps HP-UX.

* John Lyon `<[jlyon@imag.net](mailto:jlyon@imag.net)>`

   Questions about installing MySQL on Linux systems, using either `.rpm` files or compiling from source.

* Lorvid Ltd. `<[lorvid@WOLFENET.com](mailto:lorvid@WOLFENET.com)>`

   Simple billing/license/support/copyright issues.

* Patrick Sherrill `<[patrick@coconet.com](mailto:patrick@coconet.com)>`

   ODBC and VisualC++ interface questions.

* Randy Harmon `<[rjharmon@uptimecomputers.com](mailto:rjharmon@uptimecomputers.com)>`

  `DBD`, Linux, some SQL syntax questions.

