Although I (Roderick W. Smith) am releasing rEFInd in its current form, the program is not the work of a single person. Others have contributed to the program, both in its original version (rEFIt) and by providing features I've incorporated into the current version. Specifically: Program (C source code) files: ------------------------------ * Christoph Pfisterer was the original author of rEFIt. See its Web page, http://refit.sourceforge.net, for this version of the program. Christoph has therefore contributed more to rEFInd than anybody else, myself included; my changes are comparatively small additions to the original rEFIt base. * The Debian project has made a version of rEFIt available that incorporates a number of patches, all attributed to Julien BLACHE (jblache@debian.org), to enable it to build properly on a Linux system. It was this version of rEFIt that I used as a starting point for creating rEFInd. See http://packages.debian.org/sid/refit for this version of the program. * The filesystem drivers released with version 0.4.0 rely on a filesystem wrapper created by Christoph Phisterer. They then passed through Oracle's VirtualBox (https://www.virtualbox.org) and the Clover boot loader project (https://sourceforge.net/projects/cloverefiboot/). The filesystem-specific code comes from various sources, including Apple, the Linux kernel, and Christoph Pfisterer. * Assorted support code is borrowed from the TianoCore EDK2 (https://sourceforge.net/projects/tianocore/), which is the reference implementation for EFI. * Dave Vasilevsky (dave@vasilevsky.ca) contributed the disk-ejection code. * John Bressler (jrb1327@gmail.com) contributed the code to boot BIOS-based OSes on UEFI-based PCs. * The code for editing boot options (cursor_left(), cursor_right(), and line_edit() in screen.c) is taken from gummiboot (http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/gummiboot). * Stefan Agner (stefan@agner.ch) turned the original ext2fs/ext3fs driver into one that can read ext4fs. * Samuel Liao ported the GRUB 2 Btrfs and NTFS code into EFI drivers and contributed them to this project, along with several miscellaneous improvements. * Martin Whitaker (other@martin-whitaker.me.uk) added 64-bit support to the ext4fs driver. * Emerson Barcelos (emerson_freitas@yahoo.com.br) wrote the code for enabling Intel VMX support (the enable_and_lock_vmx token in refind.conf). * Rohan Sehgal (rohan.sehgal.su@gmail.com) wrote code to help rEFInd detect network boot options and launch them, with the help of the external ipxe.efi and ipxe_discover.efi programs. * Matthew J. Garrett (mjg@redhat.com) wrote the shim boot loader upon which rEFInd relies for its Secure Boot functionality. I took a few shim functions to help out on the rEFInd side, too; see the mok/mok.c source code file. * James Bottomley (James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com) wrote the Linux Foundation's PreBootloader, which is an alternative to shim. I've found that much of its code is also useful in implementing Secure Boot functionality in rEFInd. Most of the files in the mok subdirectory are based on Bottomley's PreBootloader code. * The PNG support, in the files libeg/lodepng.c and libeg/lodepng.h, is a slightly modified version of LodePNG (http://lodev.org/lodepng/) by Lode Vandevenne. (The libeg/lodepng_xtra.c file provides some necessary ancillary and interface functions written by me.) Icons and graphics: ------------------- * Most icons are derived from the AwOken icon set, version 2.5, by Alessandro Roncone (aka alecive); see http://alecive.deviantart.com/art/AwOken-163570862. Many of these icons have been scaled or altered in color from their original forms. * The Debian icon is based on the SVG available from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Debian-OpenLogo.svg. I modified it to fit the general style set by the AwOken icons. * The Elementary OS icon is based on the SVG available from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elementary_logo.svg. I modified it to fit the general style set by the AwOken icons. * Erik Kemperman provided the original (pre-0.9.3) rEFInd icon, which is a combination of the common refresh/reload icon and the search/find icon. For version 0.9.3, I created a new icon from Erik's basic design concept, but to match the AwOken flat-with-drop-shadow style. * Additional icons were created by me.