BACKUPNINJA was written by the Riseup Collective: intellectual property is theft.

Ninjas: 

elijah@riseup.net  -- original code, bug fixes, man pages
micah@riseup.net   -- debian package, vserver support, bug fixes
stefani@riseup.net -- makecd handler, man pages
intrigeri@boum.org -- dup handler, pgsql handler, vserver support, bug fixes
Charles Lepple 	   -- trac handler
Petr Klíma <petr.klima@madeta-group.cz>	-- autotools, RPM support and sys checks
paulv@bikkel.org   -- rsnap handler
Robert Napier 	   -- improved RPM build
rhatto 		   -- rub handler and patches

Patches: 

cmccallum@thecsl.org
Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr -- mysql ignores and nodata
Brad Fritz <brad@fritzfam.com> -- trac patch
garcondumonde@riseup.net
Martin Krafft madduck@debian.org -- admingroup patch
Anarcat -- lotsa patches
Jamie McClelland -- cstream patches
ale -- ldap cleanup, rdiff support for reading include/exclude from files
Sami Haahtinen <ressu@ressukka.net>
Matthew Palmer -- mysql enhancements
romain.tartiere@healthgrid.org -- ldap fixes
Adam Monsen - spec file updates
Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@debian.org> -- halt loglevel feature
dan@garthwaite.org -- reportspace bugfix
Tuomas Jormola <tj@solitudo.net> -- "when = manual" option
Ian Beckwith <ianb@erislabs.net> -- dup bandwidthlimit fix, dup helper fix
Olivier Berger <oberger@ouvaton.org> -- numerous contributions
stefan <s.freudenberg@jpberlin.de> -- dup support for Amazon S3 buckets
maniacmartin <martin@maniacmartin.com> -- rdiff confusing error message fix
Chris Nolan <chris@cenolan.com> -- maildir subdirectory expansion
Dan Carley -- mysql bugfix
Jordi Mallach <jordi@debian.org> -- do not error when no jobs are configured
Jacob Anawalt <jlanawalt@gmail.com> -- pg_dump format option
Sergio Talens-Oliag <sto@debian.org> -- pipefail fixes
Bruno Bigras <bigras.bruno@gmail.com> -- enable tar handler in the build system
aihtdikh -- Allow 'when = XXX' with spaces in .sh files.
Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org> -- rdiff.helper bugfix
Yuval Kogman <nothingmuch@woobling.org> -- RackSpace's CloudFiles support for duplicity
exobuzz - mysql bugfixes
Glennie Vignarajah <glennie@glennie.fr> -- mysql bugfix
ddpaul <paul@reic.ru> -- rsync bugfix
ulrich -- duplicity bugfix preliminary patch
David Gasaway <dave@gasaway.org> -- rdiff's output_as_info option
Pierre ROUDIER <contact@pierreroudier.net> -- xz and test mode for tar handler
olb <olb@nebkha.net> -- update of duplicity/paramiko SSH options handling
Alexander Mette <mail@amette.eu> -- duplicity bugfix
Dominik George <nik@naturalnet.de> -- Support using a different passphrase for the signing key from the one used for the encryption key in the dup handler
Christian Prause <cprause@suse.com> -- Support suse in the sys handler
Jools Wills <jools@oxfordinspire.co.uk> -- Bugfix in the sys helper, indentation fixes
Mark Janssen <mark@sig-io.nl> -- ignore jobs whose filename ends with "~"
shred <riseup@ml.shredzone.de> -- Initial patch for test mode support in the rsync handler
Daniel Lo Nigro <daniel@dan.cx> -- Dropbox support for Duplicity
Matthijs Wensveen <matthijs.wensveen@gmail.com> -- fix symmetric encryption in dup handler
ulrich <ulrich@habmalnefrage.de> -- Added validation check for when
Romain Dessort <romain@univers-libre.net> -- Fix list of devices when dumping partition tables