Hi Justin,

If I can be of any help, please let me know (and tell me what to do, or what 
not to do)

Dany

> Op 20-mrt.-2015, om 08:53 heeft Justin Mclean <jus...@classsoftware.com> het 
> volgende geschreven:
> 
> HI,
> 
>> Ignore them. There’s no hard rule that they cannot be there.
> 
> You're correct in that there's no absolute rule but it is strongly 
> recommended by the ASF board that they be removed. With the possible 
> exception of releases and legal policy that's about as hard as the ASF gets. 
> :-) I've already removed most of them anyway (2000 or 3000 odd I'd guess). 
> Showing that the code belongs to the community rather than an individual 
> hopefully encourages people to contribute. Also given a large number of the 
> authors tagged no longer contribute to the project it's really only of 
> historical interest.
> 
> The reason I haven't yet removed them from that particular location is that 
> it contains (Apache licensed) 3rd party code and I'm not 100% sure if we can 
> remove them or not. I'm happy to do the work here (unless anyone else wants 
> to help out that is). Was just asking to see what other people think.
> 
> Thanks,
> Justin

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