Hi, The ASF legal framework exists to (among other things) protect the individual contributors from litigation. The Legal Affairs committee concluded a long time ago that by removing both "Copyright" and "@author" marks in the source files, the technical "effort" or "knowledge" required to look for the actual individuals behind the code is raised, and therefor lowers the risk to the individual.
Legal Affairs committee therefor recommends that all marks of individuals are removed from source files. I agree with this policy, but we don't have to change our sources now if we don't want. Any opinions? Cheers -- Niclas Hedhman, Software Developer http://zest.apache.org - New Energy for Java
