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by Freak_NL 2298 days ago
That's the usual way of doing it. When a project grows and gains more contributions you can have the AUTHORS file have a list of former major contributors and project founders, current major contributors, and a note acknowledging the dozens of occasional and drive-by contributors (who get full credit for their patches in the revision logs).

His request is not unreasonable at all.