Peter Reilly wrote:

> Just noticed this in "ASF Board Summary for February 18, 2004"
>
>   - author tags are officially discouraged. these create difficulties in
>     establishing the proper ownership and the protection of our
>     committers. there are other social issues dealing with collaborative
>     development, but the Board is concerned about the legal ramifications
>     around the use of author tags
>
>   - it is quite acceptable and encouraged to recognize developers' efforts
>     in a CHANGES file, or some other descriptive file which is associated
>     with the overall PMC or release rather than individual files.
>
> Peter

When's the IPO?

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