> The ASF has recently recommended that we discontinue use of @author tags.
For me, that is reason enough to remove the author tags in the absence of better reasons to keep them. I trust the ASF implicitly to have discussed this matter thoroughly. If I didn't trust them, I'd search whether that discussion is documented online, possibly in some other mailing list.
Well, I am not so sanguine. I can cite cases ad nauseum where responsible parties make mistakes on fundamental matters. This is just not a good idea on legal grounds. Maybe there is a less than obvious agenda that has nothing to do with legality. That is more likely, I would think.
Someone got a link at hand?
I would love to see this.
-mikey
