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+The following people contributed code to the Open Source Routing Machine:
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+Dennis Schieferdecker 
+Dennis Luxen
+Pascal Neis
+Teemu Koskinen
+Nicolas Belett Vigneron
+Moyg
+Jean-Frédéric