JACK was inspired by and partially designed during discussions on the
Linux Audio Developers mailing list. Particularly significant
contributions to those discussions came from (in alphabetical order):

    Paul Davis
    David Olofson
    Benno Sennoner
    Kai Vehmanen
    
Many other members of LAD contributed ideas to JACK, particularly
Richard Guenther.

Paul Davis was the principal author of the JACK API and of the
implementation contained here.  Andy Wingo and Kai Vehmanen provided
many small patches and documentation.  Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano
contributed the capabilities-based code.  Jeremy Hall, Steve Harris,
and Martin Boer contributed sample clients and utilities.  Jack O'Quin
contributed many new interfaces and bug fixes.  Taybin Rutkin helps
with patch management and releases.  Melanie Thielker contributed
significantly to JACK's interaction with aspects of both POSIX and
System V APIs.  Stephane Letz ported JACK to Mac OS X.  Jussi Laako
wrote the OSS driver interface.  Tilman Linneweh ported JACK to
FreeBSD.  Johnny Petrantoni wrote the Mac OS X CoreAudio driver
interface.  Rui Nuno Capela designed and implemented JACK improvements
to work with his QJackCtl graphical interface for JACK.  He and
Karsten Wiese added US-X2Y USB device support to the ALSA backend.
Lee Revell contributed statistical interfaces and much low-latency
realtime testing.

Many others have contributed patches and/or test results.
