coding style - Writing copyright information in python code

Question

What is the standard way of writing "copyright information" in python code? Should it be inside docstring or in block comments? I could not find it in PEPs.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2048874/writing-copyright-information-in-python-code

Answer 1

Some projects use module variables like __license__, as in:

__author__ = "Software Authors Name"
__copyright__ = "Copyright (C) 2004 Author Name"
__license__ = "Public Domain"
__version__ = "1.0"

Seems like a pretty clean solution to me (unless you overdo it and dump epic texts into these variables), but only __version__ seems to be in widespread use, as it is mentioned in PEP 8.