On Apr 8, 2009, at 11:47 AM, David Jencks wrote:
I googled a bit. Around 2004 I found a bunch of emails explaining
that projects were removing author tags as a result of a board
recommendation to do so. I have a faint recollection that this
might have been associated with the apache license change. I
haven't been able to locate the recomendation. It does appear to be
a project's decision.
I don't think its important one way or the other but I personally
prefer no author tags. I've never seen them be maintained.
I actually like what some of the commons projects have started to do.
They use the @author tag but the author is a link to the team list
generated by the list in the maven pom.xml.
Ralph
