JOSM was originally designed and coded by Immanuel Scholz,
and is now maintained by the OpenStreetMap community.

The current JOSM maintainer is Dirk Stöcker.
A lot of administration work is done by Paul Hartmann and Vincent Privat.

Major code contributions from (in alphabetical order):

Stefan Breunig
David Earl
Gabriel Ebner
Dave Hansen
Paul Hartmann
Karl Guggisberg
Matthias Julius
Alexei Kasatkin
Jiri Klement
Ulf Lamping
Simon Legner
Raphael Mack
Upliner Mikhalych
Vincent Privat
Frederik Ramm
Dirk Stöcker
Michael Zangl

Many minor contributions and patches by others; see SVN history
at http://josm.openstreetmap.de/svn/ for details. Use
"josm-dev AT openstreetmap.org" to contact still active authors.

The logo has been designed by Ilya Palikov.

Copyright rests with the contributors.

-------------------------------- EXTERNAL CODE --------------------------------

The jpeg metadata extraction code is from Drew Noakes
(https://github.com/drewnoakes/metadata-extractor) and licensed
with Apache license version 2.0.

The Bzip2 code is from Apache Commons Compress and licensed
with Apache license version 2.0.

The signpost code (http://code.google.com/p/oauth-signpost/)
is from Matthias Käppler and licensed with the Apache License 2.0.

The mail/url validator routines use code from Apache Commons
Validator which is licensed with Apache license version 2.0.

The NTv2 transformation code (http://jgridshift.sourceforge.net/)
is from Peter Yuill and licensed with LGPL.

The MultiSplitPane is from Hans Muller and licensed with LGPL
(https://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2006/03/23/multi-split-pane.html).

The Alphanum Algorithm is from David Koelle and license with LGPL
(http://www.davekoelle.com/alphanum.html)

The Diff code (http://www.bmsi.com/java/#diff) 
is from Stuart D. Gathman and licensed with GPL.

The Ellipsoid code (http://www.i3s.unice.fr/~johan/gps/)
is from Johan Montagnat and licensed with GPL.

The JSON code (https://java.net/projects/jsonp/)
is from Oracle (RI for JSR 353: Java API for JSON Processing) 
and licensed with GPL / classpath exception.

The opening hour validation uses code from opening_hour.js
(https://github.com/ypid/opening_hours.js) which is licensed
with the New (2-clause) BSD license.

------------------------------- PROJECTION DATA -------------------------------

French NTF_R93 NTV2 grid: Source: IGN - Institut national de l'information
                                        géographique et forestière

German BETA2007 NTV2 grid: Source: BKG - Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie

Swiss CHENYX06 NTV2 grid: Source: Swiss Federal Office of Topography

------------------------------------ ICONS ------------------------------------

Most icons have been nicked from GNOME and the GIMP, both under GPL. 
Some are originally LGPL but redistributed here under GPL. 

The keyboard icon comes fom:
- source: http://www.iconfinder.net/index.php?q=key&page=icondetails&iconid=8553&size=128&q=key&s12=on&s16=on&s22=on&s32=on&s48=on&s64=on&s128=on
- licence: GPL
- designer: Paolino, http://www.paolinoland.it/
- original filename: keyboard.png
- original size: 128x128
- modifications: icon was cropped, then resized