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 Authors
 =======
 
-Billinge Group and community contibutors.
+DiffPy was initiated as part of the Distributed Data Analysis of Neutron
+Scattering Experiments (DANSE) project, funded by the National Science
+Foundation under grant DMR-0520547.  More information on DANSE can be
+found at http://danse.us.  Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or
+recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s)
+and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF.
+
+Main Contributors
+-----------------
+
+This code was developed as part of the DiffPy project to create python
+modules for structure investigations from diffraction data.  The main
+contributors to this package were
+
+    Chris Farrow
+    Jiwu Liu
+    Pavol Juhas
+    Dmitriy Bryndin
 
 Contributors
 ------------
+Please see the header of each source file for a detailed list of
+contributors.  This is an open-source project and we hope and expect
+that the list of contributors will expand with time.  Many thanks to
+all current and future contributors!
+
+For more information on the DiffPy project email [email protected]
 
 For a list of contributors, visit
 https://github.com/diffpy/diffpy.pdfgui/graphs/contributors
+
+Acknowledgments
+---------------
+
+We are truly grateful to all the people who have contributed, in all
+different ways, to this project:  Thomas Proffen, Xiangyun Qiu, Pete
+Peterson and Jacques Bloch, previous Billinge-group members whose
+contributions to the codes are living well beyond their affiliation with
+the group; The hard working DANSE group at Caltech, University of
+Maryland, Iowa State and University of Tennessee, especially Brent Fultz
+for doggedly putting DANSE all together and Michael Aivazis, and the
+indomitable Mike McKerns for their design input and MM's gargantuan
+excel spreadsheets; The former members of the Billinge-group members,
+especially HyunJeong Kim and Ahmad Masadeh for enthusiastic testing and
+feature requests;  Last but not least, our long suffering family members,
+and the whole coffee and tea industries at large, without whom none of
+this would have been possible.