> I'm not sure what all of the fuss is about: in papers is it common practise 
> to acknowledge funding sources. Indeed this is often required. If a 
> substantial piece of code is one of the funding outcomes shouldn't this be 
> acknowledged?

For me Sage is a collaborative software, not the administration's playground.

> I have not been putting grant information into my code as I do agree that in 
> some ways adding grant information is like spam. Nonetheless, I think that we 
> probably all should start doing this if we want to maintain that writing code 
> should count as a research output, much like papers do.

Only for papers it is only a couple of them, and for Sage  it would
mean adding them again and again and again. Let's not give them room
for that.

> I would have thought that the "correct" way to do this would be by adding a 
> brief sentence to the
> AUTHORS: block
> and the top of the file. This way when the code evolves later the correct 
> attribution remains in place.

Let's put this in a graveyard file. We don't have to stand this
absurdity of writing numbers where nobody reads them just to make them
happy.

Nathann

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