Credits and LicenseTable of Contents
KMail: Copyright the KMail developers, 1997-2021
This program is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
This documentation is licensed under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.
These are the people who deserve the most credit for initially creating KMail and raising it from its birth in 1997 through its early childhood ca. 2005. They may be regarded as the parents of KMail. A handful of them are still contributing code and bug fixes to the project today.
Laurent Montel (montel at kde org): Maintainer
Ingo Klöcker (kloecker at kde org): Former maintainer, still active
Thomas McGuire (mcguire at kde org): Former maintainer
Don Sanders (sanders at kde org): Former co-maintainer
Stefan Taferner (taferner at kde org): Original author
Michael Häckel (haeckel at kde org): Former maintainer
Till Adam (till at adam-lilienthal de): Former core developer
Volker Krause (vkrause at adam-lilienthal de): Core developer
Carsten Burghardt (burghardt at kde org): Former core developer
Marc Mutz (mutz at kde org): Former core developer
Daniel Naber (daniel naber at t-online de): Documentation
Zack Rusin (zack at kde org): Former core developer
Toyohiro Asukai (toyohiro at ksmplus com): Support for the Japanese language
Waldo Bastian (bastian at kde org): Numerous technical corrections
Ryan Breen (ryan at ryanbreen com): System tray notification
Steven Brown (swbrown at ucsd edu): Patch for PGP
Matthias Kalle Dalheimer (kalle at kde org): Crypto support
Matt Douhan (matt at fruitsalad org): Improved internal program documentation
Cristi Dumitrescu (cristid at chip ro)
David Faure (faure at kde org): Major contributor, still active
Philippe Fremy (pfremy at chez com)
Kurt Granroth (granroth at kde org): Added maildir support
Andreas Gungl (a gungl at gmx de): PGP 6 support and further enhancements of the encryption support
Steffen Hansen (hansen at kde org)
Igor Janssen (rm at linux ru net)
Matt Johnston (matt at caifex org)
Christer Kaivo-oja (whizkid at telia com)
Lars Knoll (knoll at kde org): Original encryption support, PGP 2 and PGP 5 support
J. Nick Koston (bdraco at darkorb net): GnuPG support
Stephan Kulow (coolo at kde org): Major contributor
Guillaume Laurent (glaurent at telegraph-road org)
Sam Magnuson (sam at trolltech com)
Matt Newell (newellm at proaxis com)
Denis Perchine (dyp at perchine com)
Samuel Penn (sam at bifrost demon co uk)
Carsten Pfeiffer (pfeiffer at kde org): Various and sundry bug fixes
Sven Radej (radej at kde org): Improved asynchronous processes
Mark Roberts (mark at taurine demon co uk)
Wolfgang Rohdewald (wrohdewald at dplanet ch)
Espen Sand (espen at kde org): Enhanced configuration dialogs
Aaron J. Seigo (aseigo at olympusproject org): Technical fixes; notes/calendar integration
George Staikos (staikos at kde org): Improve efficiency and consistency of code
Szymon Stefanek (pragma at kvirc net): New message list and new folder tree
Jason Stephenson (panda at mis net)
Jacek Stolarczyk (jacek at mer chemia polsl gliwice pl)
Roberto S. Teixeira (maragato at kde org)
Bo Thorsen (bo at sonofthor dk): Many valuable contributions
Ronen Tzur (rtzur at shani net)
Mario Weilguni (mweilguni at sime com)
Wynn Wilkes (wynnw at calderasystems com)
Robert D. Williams (rwilliams at kde org)
Markus Wübben (markus wuebben at kde org): Killed lots of bugs
Karl-Heinz Zimmer (khz at kde org): Major contributor