diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index 9c234d052..21e84fb9d 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -258,6 +258,7 @@ Michael Saunders
 Miha
 Mike Davis
 Mike Roberts
+Mike Williams
 Miroslav Zaťko
 mnowostawski
 Mounir El Hajj
diff --git a/contributors.xml b/contributors.xml
index 63e203044..4e6e88dad 100644
--- a/contributors.xml
+++ b/contributors.xml
@@ -1053,6 +1053,10 @@
     <first>Mike</first>
     <last>Roberts</last>
   </name>
+  <name>
+    <first>Mike</first>
+    <last>Williams</last>
+  </name>
   <name>
     <first>Miroslav</first>
     <last>Zaťko</last>
diff --git a/manual/Tasks/ccm.html b/manual/Tasks/ccm.html
index 92c13fd87..9f4725f75 100644
--- a/manual/Tasks/ccm.html
+++ b/manual/Tasks/ccm.html
@@ -35,7 +35,6 @@
 
 <p>These Apache Ant tasks are wrappers around Continuus Source Manager. They have been tested
   against versions 5.1/6.2 on Windows 2000, but should work on other platforms with ccm installed.</p>
-<p>author: <a href="mailto:benoit.moussaud@criltelecom.com">Benoit Moussaud (benoit.moussaud@criltelecom.com) </a></p>
 <hr>
 <h2><a name="ccmcheckin">CCMCheckin</a></h2>
 <h3>Description</h3>
diff --git a/src/etc/ant-update.xsl b/src/etc/ant-update.xsl
index 1ef87d9ea..c81a39f87 100644
--- a/src/etc/ant-update.xsl
+++ b/src/etc/ant-update.xsl
@@ -29,8 +29,6 @@
   
   !!!! Use at your own risk. !!!!
   
-  @author <a href="sbailliez@apache.org">Stephane Bailliez</a>
-  
 -->
  
  
@@ -116,4 +114,4 @@
     </xsl:copy>
   </xsl:template>
   
-</xsl:stylesheet>
\ No newline at end of file
+</xsl:stylesheet>
diff --git a/src/etc/coverage-frames.xsl b/src/etc/coverage-frames.xsl
index a55a52aa8..9603597e8 100644
--- a/src/etc/coverage-frames.xsl
+++ b/src/etc/coverage-frames.xsl
@@ -33,8 +33,6 @@
  of a reference classpath so that you have the list of classes/methods
  that are not used at all in a given classpath.
 
- @author Stephane Bailliez <a href="mailto:sbailliez@apache.org"/>
-
 -->
 
 <!-- default output directory is current directory -->
diff --git a/src/etc/jdepend-frames.xsl b/src/etc/jdepend-frames.xsl
index ccc9dcc20..802873450 100644
--- a/src/etc/jdepend-frames.xsl
+++ b/src/etc/jdepend-frames.xsl
@@ -28,8 +28,6 @@
  It creates a set of HTML files a la javadoc where you can browse easily
  through all packages and classes.
 
- @author <a href="mailto:jtulley@novell.com">Jeff Tulley</a>
-
   -->
 <xsl:param name="output.dir" select="'.'"/>
 
diff --git a/src/etc/maudit-frames.xsl b/src/etc/maudit-frames.xsl
index 257c0c8ca..c81f8dc3a 100644
--- a/src/etc/maudit-frames.xsl
+++ b/src/etc/maudit-frames.xsl
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@
 
     It use the Xalan redirect extension to write to multiple output files.
 
-    @author Stephane Bailliez <a href="mailto:sbailliez@apache.org"/>
 -->
 
 <xsl:param name="output.dir" select="'.'"/>
diff --git a/src/etc/mmetrics-frames.xsl b/src/etc/mmetrics-frames.xsl
index 8b4643ad2..2b0f6b81b 100644
--- a/src/etc/mmetrics-frames.xsl
+++ b/src/etc/mmetrics-frames.xsl
@@ -23,9 +23,6 @@
    See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
    limitations under the License.
 -->
-<!--
-  @author Stephane Bailliez <a href="mailto:sbailliez@apache.org"/>
-  -->
 <xsl:param name="output.dir" select="'.'"/>
 
 <!-- default max value for the metrics -->
diff --git a/src/etc/testcases/taskdefs/manifest.xml b/src/etc/testcases/taskdefs/manifest.xml
index 9c2cdb415..aecaf9679 100644
--- a/src/etc/testcases/taskdefs/manifest.xml
+++ b/src/etc/testcases/taskdefs/manifest.xml
@@ -16,8 +16,7 @@
   limitations under the License.
 -->
 
-<!-- Manifest tests build file
-     author: Conor MacNeill -->
+<!-- Manifest tests build file -->
 <project name="manifest-test" basedir="." default="test1">
   <import file="../buildfiletest-base.xml"/>
 
diff --git a/src/script/antRun.pl b/src/script/antRun.pl
index dbea10f2a..0bc5cc5e9 100644
--- a/src/script/antRun.pl
+++ b/src/script/antRun.pl
@@ -21,9 +21,6 @@
 #
 # wrapper script for invoking commands on a platform with Perl installed
 # this is akin to antRun.bat, and antRun the SH script 
-#
-# created:         2001-10-18
-# author:          Jeff Tulley jtulley@novell.com 
 #######################################################################
 #be fussy about variables
 use strict;
diff --git a/src/script/complete-ant-cmd.pl b/src/script/complete-ant-cmd.pl
index e7b5c0c7b..809192101 100644
--- a/src/script/complete-ant-cmd.pl
+++ b/src/script/complete-ant-cmd.pl
@@ -30,8 +30,6 @@
 #         set -A reply $(COMP_LINE=$args_line complete-ant-cmd.pl ${args[1]} $1)
 #     }
 #     compctl -K ant_complete ant build.sh
-#     
-# @author Mike Williams <mikew@cortexebusiness.com.au>
 
 my $cmdLine = $ENV{'COMP_LINE'};
 my $antCmd = $ARGV[0];
diff --git a/src/script/runant.pl b/src/script/runant.pl
index 5f8307ac3..fc26faa55 100644
--- a/src/script/runant.pl
+++ b/src/script/runant.pl
@@ -28,9 +28,6 @@
 # issues. oops. (NB, use File::Spec::Functions  will help and the code is
 # structured for the catfile() call, but because of perl version funnies
 # the code is not included. 
-#
-# created:         2000-8-24
-# author:          Steve Loughran steve_l@sourceforge.net
 #######################################################################
 #
 # Assumptions:
diff --git a/src/script/runant.py b/src/script/runant.py
index 9488a9312..7111766a8 100644
--- a/src/script/runant.py
+++ b/src/script/runant.py
@@ -19,14 +19,11 @@
 
  runant.py
 
-    This script is a translation of the runant.pl written by Steve Loughran.
+    This script is a translation of the runant.pl
     It runs ant with/out arguments, it should be quite portable (thanks to
     the python os library)
     This script has been tested with Python2.0/Win2K
 
- created:         2001-04-11
- author:          Pierre Dittgen pierre.dittgen@criltelecom.com
-
  Assumptions:
 
  - the "java" executable/script is on the command path