The `@author` tags in the comments for the source and tests for the javadoc tool are way out of date. Since the code was moved to an open source Mercurial repository in 2007, the accurate information about contributions has been in the changeset metadata. The tags that predate 2007 are in code that has been heavily modified over the years, such that the original authors probably would not recognize it any more.

We should remove these tags, and rely on changeset metadata to accurately record contributions.

For the record, the names being removed are the following:

A. Sundararajan
Atul Dambalkar.
Atul M Dambalkar
Bhavesh Patel
Bhavesh Patel (Modified)
Doug Kramer
Jamie Ho
Jamie Ho (Re-write)
Jamie Ho (rewrite)
Jesse Glick
Joe Fialli
Jonathan Gibbons (rewrite)
Mahmood Ali
Mahmood Ali <mali>
Mike Duigou
Naoto Sato
Neal Gafter
Neal Gafter (rewrite)
Peter von der Ah\u00e9
Robert Field
Robert Field.
Robert G. Field
Scott Seligman
Scott Seligman (generics)
Yuri Nesterenko
bpatel
dkramer
gafter
jamieh
jayashree viswanathan
jjg
jvalenta

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Please note that the removed occurrences relate to different `@author` tags. Source files contain only javadoc tags, while tests files contain both javadoc tags and jtreg tags.

Some occurrences of the javadoc `@author` tag cannot (or should not) be removed from the tests without prior analysis. This is because sometimes `@author` tags play a role in the test. An example of such a test would be open/test/langtools/jdk/javadoc/doclet/AuthorDD/AuthorDD.java. Other times, it is not clear if a tag does anything useful. An example would be test/langtools/jdk/javadoc/doclet/testAnnotationOptional/TestAnnotationOptional.java.