netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: atheros: nic-devel@...lcomm.com is dead

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Message-ID: <20210430103454.0e35269f@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com>
Date:   Fri, 30 Apr 2021 10:34:54 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, Chris Snook <chris.snook@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: atheros: nic-devel@...lcomm.com is dead

On Fri, 30 Apr 2021 14:11:42 +0200 Johannes Berg wrote:
> Remove it from the MODULE_AUTHOR statements referencing it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>

FWIW I subscribe to the belief that corporations can't be authors,
so I'd personally opt to remove these MODULE_AUTHOR()s completely.
They serve no purpose, strange legal aberrations aside, corporations
are not persons and not being sentient can't take pride in their work. 

This is not a MODULE_COPYRIGHT() macro. In the legal tradition I grew
up in the authorship rights are inalienable and we should not encourage
acting otherwise.