Hi, > I'd rather leave author tags in third-party code, unless they refer to > Flex committers.
Sounds reasonable to me. I was thinking of checking the current version of each 3rd party project and seeing if they had removed the tags and using that as a guide. > FWIW the main reason to avoid author tags is to avoid users contacting > committers directly, we want them to get in touch with the project > instead. Many of the author tags I removed also contained (non apache) email addresses. On a similar subject I did run into this recently. [1] > And many of our files have multiple authors anyway. Quite a few of the files had multiple author tags (now removed). Thanks, Justin 1. https://github.com/mackyle/sqlite/blob/3cf493d4018042c70a4db733dd38f96896cd825f/src/os.h#L52
