Remove @author tags?

Some of our Javadoc contain @author tags - which are reflected in the HTML of the JAvadoc - for instance

http://taverna.incubator.apache.org/javadoc/taverna-language/org/apache/taverna/scufl2/api/package-summary.html

http://taverna.incubator.apache.org/javadoc/taverna-osgi/org/apache/taverna/configuration/ConfigurationManager.html

Apache NiFi's argument against Javadoc @author tags: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-nifi-dev/201505.mbox/%3CCAGHyZ6LcrZ1aPMUjJ%3DrJkkK19Cmveew7PmTUKuWprK_bz3jxmg%40mail.gmail.com%3E – which I find myself agreeing with.

Older discussion also says Apache projects should stay away from @author tags:
https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-community/200306.mbox/%3C20030609234538.GA22335@lyra.org%3E

A simple argument is that under ASF all of the Taverna committers are equally responsible or attributable for all the code base - even if a particular person made a class to start with.

Maintenance of @author tag is error-prone (how big a change before you add yourself? What about thousands of files with no @author?)

Also there's the question of what is the purpose of the @author tag beyond attribution (it shows up in the HTML representation), when any questions about a class should be taken to dev@taverna - not to that person.

The git log should provide attribution about who made a file, but sadly after various folder/repository moves and version control system changes this is a bit tricky (you need to use git log --follow and hope for the best). So there is an counter-argument for keeping the @author tags - specially as coming up in TAVERNA-894 lots of the classes of taverna-osgi and taverna-engine were initially written by David Withers and Tom Oinn, and neither joined the Apache Taverna project.

What are your views?