Re: MODULE_MAINTAINER

Alan Cox
2007-04-04T15:59:41Z

> Given that people seem to agree that authorship information has no place
> in the binary, that might actually be best.

Authorship information is very useful in the binary, especially when you
have to get lawyers involved in explaining things to people. Company
business and management people understand

"load it into a binary editor, search for Alan Cox, now call your lawyer"

trying to prove a given source is a given binary is much much harder.

> So, MODULE_AUTHOR be gone?

Not if I have anything to do with it. Putting maintainer in is not a bad
idea but that assumes it gets maintained, the beauty of _AUTHOR is that
it's generally right and stays that way or approximately so.

Alan