Gang, ASF has a general recommendation that codebases are free of @author tags. The reason, AFAIK, are two-fold;
1. Collective ownership. It is recommended that no one "owns" files and that they are all of 'community ownership'. The @author tags have a tendency to 'discourage' other community members to modify the file, and thus inhibiting evolution, especially when the original author becomes less active (very common given, enough time as certain as taxes). 2. Legal obfuscation. By advertising your 'ownership' the author is putting him/herself at extended risk of legal action, since the author may not be solely responsible for all content in the file. Yet, someone seeking legal action will go to the easiest information available (the author tag). The exact information is available in the Subversion logs anyway, and we have a small but additional barrier to extract such information. So, I suggest that these are removed over time, in line with such recommendation, for your own good. I doesn't in anyway change the copyright you hold individually to the work you have performed. Cheers -- Niclas Hedhman, Software Developer http://www.qi4j.org - New Energy for Java I live here; http://tinyurl.com/2qq9er I work here; http://tinyurl.com/2ymelc I relax here; http://tinyurl.com/2cgsug
