# About
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## Core Project Team
| Name | Discord Name | Primary Role |
| ---- | ------------ | ---- |
| [Dane Everitt](https://daneeveritt.com/) | `Tactical Fish#8008` | Project Maintainer |
| Stepan Fedotov | `Trixter#0001` | WISP & WHMCS Module Maintainer |
| Michael Parker | `parkervcp#6789` | Egg Developer, Docker Integration |
| [Anand Capur](https://anand.io/) | `Arcdigital#1337` | Mobile/Cloud Project Lead |
| [Jakob Schrettenbrunner](https://schrej.net/) | `schrej#1337` | Developer |
| [Lance Pioch](https://lancepioch.com/) | `ShadowLancer#5209` | Developer |
| [Matthew Penner](https://matthewp.io/) | `matthewp#0001` | Developer |

Members of the project team have a red username in our Discord server.

## Community Team
Pterodactyl would not be as successful as it is today without the help of our fantastic community support team. These
members can be found in our Discord server and are distinguished with a yellow username.

## Sponsors
The following companies help to fund Pterodactyl's developement. [Interested in becoming a sponsor?](https://github.com/sponsors/DaneEveritt)

| Company | About |
| ------- | ----- |
| [**WISP**](https://wisp.gg) | Extra features. |
| [**Bloom.host**](https://bloom.host) | Bloom.host offers dedicated core VPS and Minecraft hosting with Ryzen 9 processors. With owned-hardware, we offer truly unbeatable prices on high-performance hosting. |
| [**MineStrator**](https://minestrator.com/) | Looking for a French highend hosting company for you minecraft server? More than 14,000 members on our discord, trust us. |
| [**DedicatedMC**](https://dedicatedmc.io/) | DedicatedMC provides Raw Power hosting at affordable pricing, making sure to never compromise on your performance and giving you the best performance money can buy. |
| [**Skynode**](https://www.skynode.pro/) | Skynode provides blazing fast game servers along with a top-notch user experience. Whatever our clients are looking for, we're able to provide it! |
| [**XCORE**](https://xcore-server.de/) | XCORE offers High-End Servers for hosting and gaming since 2012. Fast, excellent and well-known for eSports Gaming. |
| [**RoyaleHosting**](https://royalehosting.net/) | Build your dreams and deploy them with RoyaleHosting’s reliable servers and network. Easy to use, provisioned in a couple of minutes. |
| [**Spill Hosting**](https://spillhosting.no/) | Spill Hosting is a Norwegian hosting service, which aims for inexpensive services on quality servers. Premium i9-9900K processors will run your game like a dream. |
| [**DeinServerHost**](https://deinserverhost.de/) | DeinServerHost offers Dedicated, vps and Gameservers for many popular Games like Minecraft and Rust in Germany since 2013. |
| [**HostBend**](https://hostbend.com/) | HostBend offers a variety of solutions for developers, students, and others who have a tight budget but don't want to compromise quality and support. |
| [**Capitol Hosting Solutions**](https://capitolsolutions.cloud/) | CHS is *the* budget friendly hosting company for Australian and American gamers, offering a variety of plans from Web Hosting to Game Servers; Custom Solutions too! |

## License
``` text
Copyright (c) 2015 - 2021 Dane Everitt <dane@daneeveritt.com>.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.
```

## GPG Signature
Starting with Panel `v0.4.0` all releases are signed with the GPG key below. All releases include a detached key as
well to verify your download against.

Releases also include a SHA256 checksum.

<<< @/.snippets/gpg.txt