Re: MODULE_MAINTAINER

Marcel Holtmann
2007-04-04T16:06:46Z

Hi Alan,

> > 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.

removing the MODULE_AUTHOR is a bad idea. I really like to call modinfo
and see who maintains a specific driver.

Regards

Marcel