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Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 13:41:31 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Mark Hindess (JIRA)" <jira@apache.org>
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Subject: [jira] Commented: (HARMONY-6348) Remove @author tags from code
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Mark Hindess commented on HARMONY-6348:
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Jesse, I'd like to get agreement on the dev@ list before doing this.  If we decide it is the right thing to do (and I think it probably is) then I'll happily write a perl script to remove them so don't worry about creating a patch.


> Remove @author tags from code
> -----------------------------
>
>                 Key: HARMONY-6348
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-6348
>             Project: Harmony
>          Issue Type: Task
>            Reporter: Jesse Wilson
>            Assignee: Mark Hindess
>            Priority: Minor
>
> From a 2004 email 
> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/jakarta-jmeter-dev/200402.mbox/<4039F65E.7020406@atg.com>
>     "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
> I'd like to remove author tags from Harmony code to bring it closer into alignment with Android, which has no author tags.
> Unless there are objections, I'll prepare a patch...

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