<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I am +1 on this as well. <div><br></div><div>John Z</div><div><br><div><div>On Sep 10, 2013, at 4:17 PM, Douglas Harvey Rudd <<a href="mailto:drudd@uchicago.edu">drudd@uchicago.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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+1, the information isn't useful, when it isn't out of date.
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<div>On Sep 10, 2013, at 3:12 PM, Nathan Goldbaum <<a href="mailto:nathan12343@gmail.com">nathan12343@gmail.com</a>></div>
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<div>I'd like to bring up for discussion something I brought up on the license switch PR: <a href="https://bitbucket.org/yt_analysis/yt/pull-request/596/relicensing-to-bsd-3-clause/">https://bitbucket.org/yt_analysis/yt/pull-request/596/relicensing-to-bsd-3-clause/</a></div>
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<div>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
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<div><a href="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">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</a><br>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>I'd prefer to just have "the yt development team" as the author on all source code files.</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>Cheers,</div>
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