azerothcore-wotlk2/AUTHORS

# List of AUTHORS who contributed over time to the AzerothCore project

## Warning
The code of AzerothCore is shipped as it is without any form of warranty,
and - except for third party libraries licensed under the AGPL 3,
which you can read from the file "LICENSE-AGPL3".

## Point of current development
The project is currently hosted at https://www.azerothcore.org/ and developed under https://github.com/azerothcore

## History of development
Development of this project dates back to 2004, and was developed under various umbrellas over time:
* WoW Daemon Team, 2004
* MaNGOS project, 2005-2008, located at http://www.mangosproject.org
* MaNGOS project, 2008-2011, located at http://getmangos.com
* SD2 project, 2008-2009, located at http://www.scriptdev2.com/
* TrinityCore, 2008-2012, located at https://www.trinitycore.org/
* SunwellCore 2012-2016, privately developed, more info at https://www.azerothcore.org/pages/sunwell.pl/
* AzerothCore, 2016-2023, located at https://www.azerothcore.org/

## Authorship of the code
Authorship is assigned for each commit within the git history, which is stored in these git repositories:
* github.com/cmangos/mangos-svn (History from MaNGOS project from 2005-2008, originally hosted at http://mangos.svn.sourceforge.net)
* github.com/TrinityCore/TrinityCore
* github.com/azerothcore/azerothcore-wotlk

Unfortunately we have no detailed information of the history of the WoWD project;
if somebody can provide information, please contact us, so that we can make this history available

SunwellCore developed privately and has no git history.

## Exceptions with third party libraries
The third party libraries have their own way of addressing authorship, and the authorship of commits importing/ updating
a third party library reflects who did the importing instead of who wrote the code within the commit.

The Authors of third party libraries are not explicitly mentioned, and usually are possible to obtain from the files belonging to the third party libraries.