diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
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+Erik Walthinsen <omega@temple-baptist.com>
+Matt Howell <mhowell@users.sourceforge.net>
+Brent Bradburn <bbradburn@users.sourceforge.net>
+Wim Taymans <wim.taymans@chello.be>
+Richard Boulton <richard@tartarus.org>
+Zaheer Merali <zaheer@grid9.net>
+David I. Lehn <dlehn@users.sourceforge.net>
+Chris Emerson <chris@tartarus.org>
+Jens Thiele <karme@unforgettable.com>
+Thomas Nyberg <thomas@codefactory.se>
+Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>
+Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <Uraeus@linuxrising.org>
+Thomas Vander Stichele <thomas@apestaart.org>
+
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
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+2001-12-20 Thomas Vander Stichele  <thomas@apestaart.org>
+
+	* opened gst-plugins module
+	* starting with sys plugins
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
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diff --git a/README b/README
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+gst-plugins
+
+plugins for GStreamer
+
+* to develop against uninstalled GStreamer core :
+  add path to gstreamer-uninstalled.pc to PKG_CONFIG_PATH
+
+* to register plugins in source tree
+  run gstreamer-register --gst-plugin-path=.
+
+