diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+The authors of the 1.x series are
+
+ * Balazs Dezso <deba@inf.elte.hu>
+ * Alpar Juttner <alpar@cs.elte.hu>
+ * Peter Kovacs <kpeter@inf.elte.hu>
+ * Akos Ladanyi <ladanyi@tmit.bme.hu>
+
+For more details on the actual contribution, please visit the history
+of the main LEMON source repository: http://lemon.cs.elte.hu/hg/lemon
+
+Moreover, this version is heavily based on the 0.x series of
+LEMON. Here is the list of people who contributed to those versions.
+
+ * Mihaly Barasz <klao@cs.elte.hu>
+ * Johanna Becker <beckerjc@cs.elte.hu>
+ * Attila Bernath <athos@cs.elte.hu>
+ * Balazs Dezso <deba@inf.elte.hu>
+ * Peter Hegyi <hegyi@tmit.bme.hu>
+ * Alpar Juttner <alpar@cs.elte.hu>
+ * Peter Kovacs <kpeter@inf.elte.hu>
+ * Akos Ladanyi <ladanyi@tmit.bme.hu>
+ * Marton Makai <marci@cs.elte.hu>
+ * Jacint Szabo <jacint@cs.elte.hu>
+
+Again, please visit the history of the old LEMON repository for more
+details: http://lemon.cs.elte.hu/svn/lemon/trunk
diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 LDADD = $(top_builddir)/lemon/libemon.la
 
 EXTRA_DIST = \
+	AUTHORS \
 	LICENSE \
 	m4/lx_check_cplex.m4 \
 	m4/lx_check_glpk.m4 \