/usr/share/doc/gnome-settings-daemon/AUTHORS is in gnome-settings-daemon 3.22.2-2+deb9u2.
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1 2 | Jonathan Blandford <jrb@redhat.com>
William Jon McCann <mccann@jhu.edu>
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