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Simplify license headers in source files
Currently, our source files show individual authors as well as the license in a comment near the top, for example:
# Authors: Jaakko Leppakangas <[email protected]>
# Robert Luke <[email protected]>
#
# License: BSD-3-Clause
I think this is not ideal for the following reasons:
- It is not trivial to keep the list of authors up to date. Since this information is available from Git anyway, it is also not necessary.
- I don't think we have always updated these lists, so currently this information is likely outdated.
- There's always the question what kind of change(s) qualifies an author to get added to that list.
I suggest that we replace our headers with the following license text across all source files:
# Authors: MNE-Python development team
# License: BSD-3-Clause
The exact wording can be changed of course (feel free to make suggestions), but the point is to get rid of individual authors.