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On 04/26/2007 06:00 PM, Alan Cox wrote:

>> Tie Alan to his chair and take away his keyboard while we submit patches 
>> removing MODULE_AUTHOR? Or just apply a trivial two line, optional, non 
>> mandatory, patch introducing a MODULE_MAINTAINER? You pick... :-)
> 
> MODULE_AUTHOR is extremely important for licensing enforcement. Removing
> it should not be an option.

Yes, the "choice" was obviously in jest. If you say MODULE_AUTHOR must stay, 
so must it. As said, that just leaves me wanting a way to override it as a 
contact.

Rene.