linux-kernel - Re: MODULE

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Message-ID: <4630D724.70901@gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 26 Apr 2007 18:45:24 +0200
From:	Rene Herman <rene.herman@...il.com>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
CC:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: MODULE_MAINTAINER

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.

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