Indeed, last vote about 6-8 months ago was to deprecate the @author tags, and that rule is still on our web site. We'll need a revote to allow them. As a committer, I personally have never bothered with @author tags, but I do like how they show outside developer and corporate contributions to our project.
The Batik team has some 1800 attributions of various developers, Xalan checks in with about 650. Cocoon seems to use them as well. (Those are the only projects I've checked, I don't know how Jakarta is.) After layout and properties are done--I would be thrilled if some companies, liking our product, decide to donate us specific renderers--maybe HP would have a team do a PCL renderer for us, IBM another. Or maybe a bright small company wants to advertise its skills. If they want to have their names on an @author tag, that's a very cheap price for us to pay. Before we put on a lawyer hat and declare that @author tags threaten to take precedence over the Apache license--let's take this issue to the ASF for guidance. (After all, they might have legal aspects, and they have drawbacks in that they can get messy if overused.) As far as I can tell from the other projects though, @author tags are still kosher. Dirk-Willem, does Apache have any position on @author tags or other author attributions in source files? See below for examples. Thanks, Glen [1] http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/xml-fop/src/org/apache/fop/render/awt/Attic/AWTRenderer.java?rev=1.45&view=auto [2] http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/xml-fop/src/java/org/apache/fop/render/rtf/RTFHandler.java?rev=1.13&view=auto [3] http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/xml-batik/sources/org/apache/batik/parser/AWTPolylineProducer.java?rev=1.3&view=auto [4] http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/cocoon-2.1/src/java/org/apache/cocoon/reading/ImageReader.java?rev=1.4&view=auto --- "J.Pietschmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > removed "former contributor" > > section in favor of going back to giving credit > within source files. > > Uh, oh. That's not supposed to be a change anybody > can make > on a whim. > > J.Pietschmann __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus
