Documentation Link

https://matplotlib.org/stable/

Problem

The message in the footer reads

© Copyright 2002–2012 John Hunter, Darren Dale, Eric Firing, Michael Droettboom and the Matplotlib development team; 2012–2024 The Matplotlib development team.

This is very verbose.

Suggested improvement

Per

The Matplotlib Development Team is the set of all contributors to the matplotlib project

logic would suggest that John Hunter, Darren Dale, Eric Firing, Michael Droettboom also belong to the Matplotlib development team and one can absorb everything in

© Copyright 2002-2024 The Matplotlib development team.

Which reads a bit nicer. Does anybody know whether that's viable (logic and law sometimes have a funny relationship)?