From 0077dde9db8aa515c3631c2d19743eeb13b3541d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Andrey <paul.andrey@inria.fr>
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2023 15:07:51 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add AUTHORS file.

---
 AUTHORS        | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 README.md      | 13 +++++++++++--
 pyproject.toml |  3 +--
 3 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 AUTHORS

diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..db87cc3c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+This file maintains the list of present and past declearn authors.
+A secondary file listing punctual open-source contributors may complement it.
+
+Declearn 2.0 (new implementation)
+- Paul Andrey (core developer)
+- Nathan Bigaud (core developer)
+- Nathalie Vauquier (supervision)
+
+Declearn 1.x (continuation of 1.0)
+- Nathalie Vauquier
+- Marc-André Sirgiel
+
+Declearn 1.0
+- Yannick Bouillard (core developer)
+- Paul Andrey (review and minor contributions)
+
+Supervision (all versions)
+- Marc Tommasi
+- Aurélien Bellet
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index ea8d9d6e..52c1c3fe 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -870,8 +870,17 @@ of merge requests.
 Declearn is an open-source software developed by people from the
 [Magnet](https://team.inria.fr/magnet/) team at [Inria](https://www.inria.fr/).
 
-It is distributed under the Apache-2.0 license. All code files should therefore
-contain the following mention, which also applies to the present README file:
+### Authors
+
+Current core developers are listed under the `pyproject.toml` file. A more
+detailed acknowledgement and history of authors and contributors to declearn
+can be found in the `AUTHORS` file.
+
+### License
+
+Declearn distributed under the Apache-2.0 license. All code files should
+therefore contain the following mention, which also applies to the present
+README file:
 ```
 Copyright 2023 Inria (Institut National de la Recherche en Informatique
 et Automatique)
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 28048822..e6b7a158 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -16,11 +16,10 @@ license = {file = "LICENSE"}
 authors = [
     {name = "Paul Andrey", email = "paul.andrey@inria.fr"},
     {name = "Nathan Bigaud", email = "nathan.bigaud@inria.fr"},
-    {name = "Nathalie Vauquier", email = "nathalie.vauquier@inria.fr"},
 ]
 maintainers = [
     {name = "Paul Andrey", email = "paul.andrey@inria.fr"},
-    {name = "Nathalie Vauquier", email = "nathalie.vauquier@inria.fr"},
+    {name = "Nathan Bigaud", email = "nathan.bigaud@inria.fr"},
 ]
 classifiers = [
     "Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable",
-- 
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