# About OpenRefine

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OpenRefine is a power tool for working with messy data. Use it to improve data consistency, link it to data registries like Wikidata, augment it with data from other sources, transform it into different formats for other tools to consume, and contribute it to back to the original sources. OpenRefine is not a web service but a desktop app that runs on your own computer, so you can process sensitive data with privacy.

OpenRefine was originally developed as "Freebase Gridworks" by Metaweb Technologies, Inc.. Metaweb was acquired by Google in July 2010 and they renamed the product Google Refine. In October, 2012, the product was renamed OpenRefine as it transitioned to a community supported project.

## Contributors (in chronological order)

- David Huynh
- Stefano Mazzocchi
- Vishal Talwar
- Will Moffat
- Jeff Fry
- James Home
- Iain Sproat
- Tom Morris
- Heather Campbell
- Thad Guidry thadguidry@gmail.com
- Paul Makepeace paulm@paulm.com
- Tomaž Šolc tomaz.solc@zemanta.com
- Gabriel Sjoberg GabrielSjoberg@gmail.com
- Rod Salazar rodrod.salazar@gmail.com
- pxb pxb1988@gmail.com
- Qi jackyq2015@gmail.com
- Antonin Delpeuch antonin@delpeuch.eu

## Special Thanks

- Paolo Ciccarese
- Thad Guidry
- Knut Forkalsrud
- Panxiaobo
- Gabriel Sjoberg
- Paul Makepeace
- Tomaž Šolc
- Rodrigo Salazar
- Owen Stephens
- Ettore Rizza

## OpenRefine License

    Copyright 2010-2012, Google Inc. and contributors
    All rights reserved.

    Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
    modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are
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## Dependencies Licenses

    Apache License 2.0
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        commons-lang
        commons-codec
        commons-fileupload
        jackson
        jdatapath
        jetty
        jetty-util
        log4j
        poi
        poi-ooxml
        poi-ooxml-schemas
        servlet-api
        xmlbeans
        signpost
        opencsv
        textng

    LGPL
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    licenses/marj4j.LICENSE.txt
        marc4j

    BSD
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    licenses/secondstring.LICENSE.txt
        secondstring

    licenses/dom4j.LICENSE.txt
        dom4j

    licenses/simile.LICENSE.txt
        simile vicino

    licenses/arithcode.LICENSE.txt
        arithcode

    licenses/freebase_suggest.LICENSE.txt
        freebase_suggest

    MIT
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    licenses/jquery.LICENSE.txt
        jquery

    licenses/jquery_ui.LICENSE.txt
        jquery_ui

    licenses/jquery.eventstack.LICENSE.txt
        jquery eventstack

    licenses/datejs.LICENSE.txt
        datejs

    licenses/imgareaselect.LICENSE.txt
        imgareaselect

    licenses/slf4j.LICENSE.txt
        slf4j-api
        slf4j-log4j12
        jcl-over-slf4j

    licenses/icu4j.LICENSE.txt
        icu4j

    licenses/json.LICENSE.txt
        json

    licenses/mockito.LICENSE.txt
        mockito

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