Authors

libwpd primary authors
 Fridrich Strba (fridrich.strba@bluewin.ch)
 Marc Maurer (uwog@uwog.net)
 William Lachance (wrlach@gmail.com)

libwpd contributers

 Andrew Ziem (ahziem1@mailbolt.com) - Fix memory leak in standalone WordPerfect converters.
 Ariya Hidayat (ariya@kde.org) - Contributed a set of extended character mappings for WordPerfect 6+ files.
 Caolan McNamara (caolan@redhat.com) - Build fix for STL strings
 David Hislop (dhislop@optushome.com.au) - Build fixed on MSVC++ and project files to build wpd2foo converters with MSVC++ compilers, as well as enhanced hadling of metadata in WP6 documents.
 David Mandelin mandelin@cs.wisc.edu - rint() function for Win32/MSVC
 Francis J Franklin F.J.Franklin@sheffield.ac.uk - Build libwpd as a shared library
 Kamran Khan (sum1) (sum1_abi@yahoo.com) - Audited libwpd with more than 46k documents and helped to improve considerably libwpd's stability
 Mark Gilbert markgilbert@hotpop.com - Compilation Fixes
 Michael Meeks (michael@ximian.com) - Remove mandatory dependancy on glib and libgsf
 Michael Pritchett (MPritchett@attglobal.net) - Created the Win32 build system.
 Rui Miguel Silva Seabra rms@1407.org - original rpm spec, build patches
 Smokey Ardisson (alqahira@mindspring.com) - Contributed mappings for Arabic extended characters for WordPerfect 6+ files. Improved the content of our web-site.
 Ted Lemon mellon@fugue.com - Tibetan Extended Character Mappings

Thanks
 Net Integration Technologies (now IBM) - For allowing William Lachance to on libwpd during company time.
 Novell, Inc. - For allowing Fridrich Strba to work on libwpd during company time.
 Yam Software - For funding the development of page numbering support.

Licensing

libwpd, wpd2sxw, and WriterPerfect are all licensed under the terms of the LGPL.
wpd2text is licensed under the terms of the Mozilla Public License.

Source

http://libwpd.sourceforge.net