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+# Contributors
+
+## Original Author
+
+**Dominic Hoegliner**  
+Author and maintainer of XNeedle.  
+All intellectual property rights retained by the original author.
+
+---
+
+Contributions via pull request are welcome.
+By submitting a contribution, you agree that your contribution
+will be licensed under the same BSD 3-Clause License as this project,
+and that the original authorship of Dominic Hoegliner is acknowledged.
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-Copyright 2025 DOMINIC HOEGLINER
+Copyright 2026 DOMINIC HOEGLINER
 
 Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: