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".

## 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-CURRENT, 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 on the history of the WoWD project;
if somebody can provide information, please contact us, so that we can make this history available

SunwellCore was developed privately and has unfortunately 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 is possible to obtain from the files belonging to the third-party libraries.