jpayne@69: About the Copyright Holders
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jpayne@69: *   Copyright (c) 2008-2011 AQR Capital Management, LLC
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jpayne@69:     AQR Capital Management began pandas development in 2008. Development was
jpayne@69:     led by Wes McKinney. AQR released the source under this license in 2009.
jpayne@69: *   Copyright (c) 2011-2012, Lambda Foundry, Inc.
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jpayne@69:     Wes is now an employee of Lambda Foundry, and remains the pandas project
jpayne@69:     lead.
jpayne@69: *   Copyright (c) 2011-2012, PyData Development Team
jpayne@69: 
jpayne@69:     The PyData Development Team is the collection of developers of the PyData
jpayne@69:     project. This includes all of the PyData sub-projects, including pandas. The
jpayne@69:     core team that coordinates development on GitHub can be found here:
jpayne@69:     https://github.com/pydata.
jpayne@69: 
jpayne@69: Full credits for pandas contributors can be found in the documentation.
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jpayne@69: Our Copyright Policy
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jpayne@69: PyData uses a shared copyright model. Each contributor maintains copyright
jpayne@69: over their contributions to PyData. However, it is important to note that
jpayne@69: these contributions are typically only changes to the repositories. Thus,
jpayne@69: the PyData source code, in its entirety, is not the copyright of any single
jpayne@69: person or institution. Instead, it is the collective copyright of the
jpayne@69: entire PyData Development Team. If individual contributors want to maintain
jpayne@69: a record of what changes/contributions they have specific copyright on,
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jpayne@69: 
jpayne@69: With this in mind, the following banner should be used in any source code
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jpayne@69: ```
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jpayne@69: # Copyright (c) 2012, PyData Development Team
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jpayne@69: #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
jpayne@69: ```
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jpayne@69: Other licenses can be found in the LICENSES directory.
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jpayne@69: 
jpayne@69: pandas is distributed under a 3-clause ("Simplified" or "New") BSD
jpayne@69: license. Parts of NumPy, SciPy, numpydoc, bottleneck, which all have
jpayne@69: BSD-compatible licenses, are included. Their licenses follow the pandas
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