Python docstrings and licensing/authorship

[John Snow]

For some of the Python cleanup work I am doing, I am moving preamble 
comments into docstrings. These docstrings are visible in interactive 
editors and may be visible when using Sphinx to generate documentation 
manuals for Python code.

My instinct is to remove the licensing and authorship information from 
the preamble and leave the docstring only with information functionally 
relevant to the module, while leaving licensing and authorship 
information in a comment (above? below?).

The end effect would be that using e.g. `help(qapi.parser)` in the 
interactive Python shell would not show licensing or copyright for the 
module, but it would still be visible in the source file, as always.

Is this in bad taste? Do we have strong feelings about authorship and 
licensing being visible in help output and generated documentation?

--js