>> a silly thing is a silly thing. If removing author tags may >> reduce the risk of being sued, then rip them out.
>One reason cited for removing the @author tags is for legal protection -- >and it's a good reason. But I don't see how removing @author tags can offer >any legal protection, unless you also "clean" out the CVS logs (which store >who committed each change to each file, down to the exact lines of code they >changed). Not to mention the bugzilla database, this message forum, etc.
It WOULD BE a good reason if there were a legal problem. There is not. However, as Chris Lamprecht correctly notes, any workable alternative would have exactly the same non-existent problems. This discussion has begun over a non-problem. It is bureaucracy gone haywire once again.
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