# NetBeans: Credits

The NetBeans Open Source project cannot exist without contributions from the community.

Special credit is given to

- Oracle Corp.

for releasing the source code to the NetBeans IDE to the public and paying the salaries of many people involved in this project.

Additional credit is given to the following people who contributed to this project (in alphabetical order and independent of the amount of their contributions; addresses are at netbeans.org unless otherwise specified):

Note. This list will be assembled for the FCS release.

If you are not listed here but feel you should be, please let us know and please give details of your contribution: for example, references to mailing list archives, Bugzilla, HG changesets, etc.

Many thanks also go to the people who contributed ideas or gave time to help others on the mailing lists.