Re: Removing..uthor tags

From: Kevin Menard (nirvdru..mail.com)
Date: Mon Nov 10 2008 - 08:20:23 EST

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    Sounds good to me. The commit history is a better indicator of who to
    talk to if one does have a question to ask the author anyway. 

    -- 
Kevin

    On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 2:57 AM, Andrus Adamchik <andru..bjectstyle.org> wrote:
> I'd like to suggest stripping..uthor tags from all Java classes. In a
> mature project like Cayenne they make little sense, as many people have
> touched most files over the years. They only create false ownership
> perception. As my name is on most of the classes, I figured it would be most
> appropriate if I suggest that myself.
>
> Also IIRC there have been discussions in other places at Apache that
> mentioned..uthor tags as a potential for developer legal liability (as you
> know, one of the major goals of the ASF is to shield individual contributors
> from such liability). I am personally less concerned about this particular
> aspect, still figured I'd mention.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Andrus
>

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