+1

Ken

> On Feb 17, 2016, at 1:35 PM, Anthony Baker <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> +1
> 
> The ASF policy is well known [1] and I think @author information is no longer 
> helpful in any case.
> 
> Anthony
> 
> [1] 
> http://www.apache.org/foundation/records/minutes/2004/board_minutes_2004_02_18.txt
> 
>> On Feb 17, 2016, at 1:29 PM, Sai Boorlagadda <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> In preparation towards graduation I am planning to remove author tags from
>> all source files.
>> 
>> GEODE-52 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GEODE-52>, has some
>> discussions whether we should or shouldn`t remove them.
>> 
>> I would like to restart the discussion and get a fresh consensus from the
>> community.
>> 
>> Find below some of the reasons why ASF is against the author tags:
>> 
>>  - Attributions in source files are not up to date.
>>  - Software is a team effort.
>>  - ASF sells the code base as an ASF brand.
>>  - Shield against law-suits.
>> 
>> --
>> Sai Boorlagadda
> 

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