diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index d4f6d6b399cfade76b0b9a4f907f3cbfea74056e..82d815a1abaf85c63ac498418fd06f74b7efde8b 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -51,6 +51,10 @@ Cvs code -
 	- New macro TOGGLE which just toggles, no more silly checking
 	  ISSET and then using SET or UNSET when we want a simple toggle
 	  for a flag.
+- Makefile.am:
+	- Include ABOUT-NLS and the new THANKS files to the distributed list.
+- THANKS:
+	- Initial, incomplete list of people to thank.
 - configure.in:
 	- New option, --enable-nanorc, which allows people to have a .nanorc
 	  initialization file and set options normally used on the command
diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index cd5dc4eb3aa5f4e9952b78b8247e24f67b6df266..a547ae97b073015832ca5619b767c0a9731bb345 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -19,9 +19,9 @@ nano_LDADD = @INTLLIBS@
 info_TEXINFOS = nano.texi
 MAKEINFO = makeinfo --no-split
 
-EXTRA_DIST =	AUTHORS BUGS COPYING ChangeLog INSTALL NEWS README \
-		TODO install-sh missing mkinstalldirs nano.1 nano.1.html \
-		faq.html nanorc.sample
+EXTRA_DIST =	ABOUT-NLS AUTHORS BUGS COPYING ChangeLog INSTALL NEWS \
+		README THANKS TODO install-sh missing mkinstalldirs \
+		nano.1 nano.1.html faq.html nanorc.sample
 
 SUBDIRS = po intl
 
diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a3aafca41a6935dab6b85af5852a396b6f9ed928
--- /dev/null
+++ b/THANKS
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+The following people have helped GNU nano in some way or another.
+If we missed you here, let us now!
+
+Marco Colombo <magicdice@inwind.it>		Italian Translator
+Tedi Heriyanto <tedi_h@gmx.net>			Indonesian Translator
+Václav Haisman <V.Haisman@sh.cvut.cz>		Czech Translator
+Szabolcs Horvath <horvaths@fi.inf.elte.hu>	Hungarian Translator
+Florian König <floki@bigfoot.com>		German Translator
+Clement Laforet <clem_laf@wanadoo.fr>		French Translator
+Sergey A. Ribalchenko <fisher@obu.ck.ua>	Russian, Ukrainian Translator
+Pierre Tane <tanep@bigfoot.com>			French Translator
+Jacobo Tarrío <jtarrio@trasno.net>		Galician Translator
+Miquel Vidal <miquel@sindominio.net>		Catalan Translator
+Pauli Virtanen <pauli.virtanen@saunalahti.fi>	Finnish Translator
+
+
+$Id$