Re: Standardized file headers?

Robert Dodier <[email protected]>
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On Wed, Apr 22, 2026 at 5:18 PM Raymond Toy <[email protected]> wrote:

> I don’t find this appropriate for new code. Neither MIT, UT, nor William Schelter had anything to do with it. (Like Barton’s hypergeometric.lisp, I think.) Probably just remove those lines and leave the Maxima project line.

Agreed that we should avoid giving credit to anyone who didn't
actually work on the code.

About crediting the Maxima project, I think we should avoid that, as
it doesn't exist in a legal sense, so it can't be credited with
authorship. I think it's OK to be vague about who the authors are.
Something like "copyright 2000-2026 by the authors of this file."
Exactly who that is can be discovered in the commit log.

FWIW

Robert


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