
Bryan Ford and Erich Stefan Boleyn wrote the initial version of the Multiboot
specification.

The following authors assigned copyright on their work to the Free
Software Foundation:

In year 1999, Kunihiro Ishiguro provided the first version that would be
imported into GNU GRUB.

Yoshinori K. Okuji maintained it during the 1999-2006 period.

In year 2000, Per Lundberg added graphics support.
