This is just de-facto community standard. Personally I think its good to
be able to visibly put your name to something that you are proud of, its
like an artists signature. Also I tend not to add my name for minor
fixes or for things for which I don't really want to be associated with
:)

On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 12:24:40AM -0800, Alexander Obuhovich wrote:
>    In tests/Gush/Tests/Command/BaseTestCase.php:
> 
>  > + * (c) Luis Cordova <cordoval@gmail.com>
>  > + *
>  > + * This source file is subject to the MIT license that is bundled
>  > + * with this source code in the file LICENSE.
>  > + */
>  > +
>  > +namespace Gush\Tests\Command;
>  > +
>  > +use Github\Client;
>  > +use Gush\Application;
>  > +use Gush\Test\HttpClient\TestHttpClient;
>  > +use Symfony\Component\Console\Command\Command;
>  > +use Symfony\Component\Console\Tester\CommandTester;
>  > +
>  > +/**
>  > + * @author Daniel T Leech <dantleech@gmail.com>
> 
>    That would be the pain to keep that list up to date in each of the files.
> 
>    Also I don't think that it will be beneficial in any form to the project.
>    Same as showing last changed revision in header (thankfully not used in
>    this project). If somebody really care to know who added particular code
>    line or contributed to particular file, then he can query Git about this
>    information.
> 
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