diff --git a/doc/CREDITS b/doc/CREDITS
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+Unbound was developed at NLnet Labs by Wouter Wijngaards.
+
+Unbound was devised by Bill Manning, David Blacka, and Matt Larson 
+from the University of California and from Verisign. The Java prototype
+was made in further cooperation with Geoff Sisson and Roy Arends from Nominet.
+
+At NLnet Labs, Jelte Jansen and Mark Santcroos reviewed the unbound C sources.
diff --git a/doc/Changelog b/doc/Changelog
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 27 July 2007: Wouter
 	- removed useless -C debug option. It did not work.
 	- text edit of documentation.
+	- added doc/CREDITS file, referred to by the manpages.
 
 26 July 2007: Wouter
 	- cycle detection, for query state dependencies. Will attempt to