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-# People who have agreed to one of the CLAs and can contribute patches.
-# The AUTHORS file lists the copyright holders; this file
-# lists people.  For example, Google employees are listed here
-# but not in AUTHORS, because Google holds the copyright.
-#
-# https://developers.google.com/open-source/cla/individual
-# https://developers.google.com/open-source/cla/corporate
-#
-# Names should be added to this file as:
-#     Name <email address>
-
-
-Arun Sharma <arsharma@google.com>
-Brandon Wallace <wallaceb@google.com>
-Fahrzin Hemmati <fahhem@gmail.com>
-Joe Ethier <jethier@google.com>
-John Hawley <madsci@google.com>
-Keith Suda-Cederquist <kdsudac@google.com>
-Kenneth Schiller <kschiller@google.com>
-Christian Paulin <cpaulin@google.com>