-Riece is written by Daiki Ueno <ueno@unixuser.org>.
+Copyright (C) 1998-2005 Daiki Ueno
+Copyright (C) 1989 Tor Lillqvist
-Riece is a redesign of the Liece IRC client. The code is almost
-completely rewritten.
+Riece is mainly written by Daiki Ueno <ueno@unixuser.org>.
-Liece was mainly written by the same author of Riece. It is based on
-Irchat (version 3.01) which has been distributed under GNU General
-Public License version 1 or later. Special thanks to Tor Lillqvist,
-the original author of Irchat.
+The development of Riece has started to redesign the Liece IRC client.
+Liece is based on Irchat (version 3.01) which has been distributed
+under GNU General Public License version 1 or later. Liece was mainly
+written by the same author of Riece. Tor Lillqvist <tml@iki.fi> is
+the original author of Irchat. See doc/irchat-copyright.el for the
+original copyright statement of Irchat.
+
+Riece has many code borrowed from other GPL'ed elisp packages such as
+Gnus, Emacs-w3m, ECB, and SEMI. I would like to thank the developers
+of these packages.
+
+Other authors:
+
+TAKAHASHI Kaoru <kaoru@kaisei.org>
+OHASHI Akira <bg66@koka-in.org>
+Yoichi NAKAYAMA <yoichi@geiin.org>