I am generally against `@author` tags.  In general, the files needs to be maintainable by everyone who works on a project and as changes are made to a file, it's often the case that an author will exist as a tag on the file, but if you actually go and blame/annotate the file, you will see that it was completely changed by someone else and the author isn't necessarily even aware of what its current state is.

I won't make you remove them though, if you really want them :)