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+## Emeritus ##
+
+We would like to acknowledge previous runc maintainers and their huge
+contributions to our collective success:
+
+ * Alexander Morozov (@lk4d4)
+ * Andrei Vagin (@avagin)
+ * Rohit Jnagal (@rjnagal)
+ * Victor Marmol (@vmarmol)
+
+We thank these members for their service to the OCI community.