On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 11:35 PM, Mladen Turk <mt...@apache.org> wrote:
> On 01/24/2014 07:51 PM, Rainer Jung wrote: > >> On 24.01.2014 17:24, Mladen Turk wrote: >> >>> On 01/24/2014 03:14 PM, Mark Thomas wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> If you have are for *your* @author tags to be removed from trunk, reply >>>> here and I'll make the changes. >>>> >>>> >>> Remove either all or none. >>> >> >> - there's to many authors we won't reach >> > > Yes, that was my point. We can all decide to remove our > individual @author tag, but those folks we cannot reach will > eventually stay as the sole authors of the given code. > > > - anyone is free to remove his own author tags >> > > Is there anything that prevents us to decide to remove > all @authors tags from our entire codebase? > AFAICT most of the people are fine with removing their tags, so > in case we can do that, I see no reason to go trough individual process. > > > I don't see why we can't remove all. Put them into a file as the contributors (pom.xml?) and remove from the source. A lot of Commons libraries did that 5+ years back and there's been no backlash. It's not like they're Copyright statements. Hen
