diff --git a/AUTHORS.md b/AUTHORS.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..dcaaea101f4c8 --- /dev/null +++ b/AUTHORS.md @@ -0,0 +1,57 @@ +About the Copyright Holders +=========================== + +* Copyright (c) 2008-2011 AQR Capital Management, LLC + + AQR Capital Management began pandas development in 2008. Development was + led by Wes McKinney. AQR released the source under this license in 2009. +* Copyright (c) 2011-2012, Lambda Foundry, Inc. + + Wes is now an employee of Lambda Foundry, and remains the pandas project + lead. +* Copyright (c) 2011-2012, PyData Development Team + + The PyData Development Team is the collection of developers of the PyData + project. This includes all of the PyData sub-projects, including pandas. 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