diff --git a/cde/CONTRIBUTORS b/cde/CONTRIBUTORS
index 96a4451ac..fb423089e 100644
--- a/cde/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/cde/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -1,7 +1,11 @@
 # The following people have contributed code or other changes to the 
 # CDE project following its release as Open Source software in 2012.
 #
-# Please keep order this list by given-name
+# For the rest of the contributors to the code before the Open Source release
+# see copyright and copyright.old.
+#
+# Please keep this list in order by given-name
 
 Jon Trulson <jon@radscan.com>
+Matthew Howkins
 Peter Howkins <peter.howkins@marutan.net>