Is it official policy to remove author tags from source files?
Board minutes here discuss the issue:
http://www.apache.org/foundation/records/minutes/2004/board_minutes_2004_02_18.txt
D. Discussion: copyright ownership
Although initiated due to the current efforts for Spam Assassin,
the board discussed at length the issues and guidelines regarding
copyright ownership for the ASF. It was agreed that all files
should have 1 single copyright to the ASF. Copyrights extend
to the work as a whole, and the ASF must have these. The
use of the CHANGES files should note any "history" regarding
copyrights and that the use of 'author' tags should be
discouraged for this and other reasons.
It looks like there is/was discussion on this issue after these minutes were produced,
so I'm not sure if this was the final word on the subject. Should we be removing
author tags?
My 2 cents: It's nice to see who have made changes to source, without having to wander
into viewCVS.
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