[yt-dev] License switch: remove author tags

[Nathan Goldbaum]

Hi all,

I'd like to bring up for discussion something I brought up on the license
switch PR:
https://bitbucket.org/yt_analysis/yt/pull-request/596/relicensing-to-bsd-3-clause/

Specifically, I think we should remove the author tags, which Matt left in
the source code after changing the license tags.  My reasons are fleshed
out in a section from the book Team Geek, by Brian Fitzpatrick and Ben
Collins-Sussman, the lead devs on the subversion project:

http://books.google.com/books?id=Iwk_pKeBc9gC&pg=PA48&lpg=PA48&dq=%22putting+your+name+in+source+code+files%22&source=bl&ots=0iMWJPf70z&sig=z1n4Qo7FzvHf2Gd_EDENJbjidiU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=hngvUtf1F4qLiAK9soCQCw&ved=0CFgQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=%22putting%20your%20name%20in%20source%20code%20files%22&f=false

While the poisonous patterns described in the book haven't happenned in yt
in the past, there's always the chance that it will happen in the future.
 I think we also lose nothing by dropping the author tags since the
authorship information encoded in the tags has been rendered redundant and
incomplete by the authorship information encoded in the mercurial
repository.

I'd prefer to just have "the yt development team" as the author on all
source code files.

I don't want this suggestions to hold up acceptance of Matt's PR and I will
happily change all of the author tags myself if we decide to remove them.

Cheers,

Nathan
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