OpenOCD was created by Dominic Rath as part of a diploma thesis written at the University of Applied Sciences Augsburg (http://www.fh-augsburg.de). Others interested in improving the state of free and open debug and testing technology are welcome to participate.
Other developers have contributed support for additional targets and flashes as well as numerous bugfixes and enhancements. See the AUTHORS file for regular contributors.
The main OpenOCD web site is available at http://openocd.berlios.de/web/