[yt-dev] License switch: remove author tags

[Matthew Turk]

Hi Nathan,

Seems like there's a pretty good consent about this.  I'll update the
PR when I am able to today.

Following this, I'll issue a PR for yt 3.0.  I don't think we should
necessarily adjust the docs just yet, but that is something we can
consider during the doc sprint next month.

-Matt

PS This is not meant to shut down discussion of the options Anthony
laid out, but they are somewhat orthogonal to the  question of
removing Author tags.

On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 4:12 PM, Nathan Goldbaum <nathan12343 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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