[oe] [oe-commits] Holger Hans Peter Freyther : u-boot-openmoko: Remove AUTHOR line, this was meant to be the recipe author line

Michael 'Mickey' Lauer mickey at vanille-media.de
Mon Nov 17 23:38:08 UTC 2008


Am Monday 17 November 2008 14:08:26 schrieb Holger Freyther:
> > No, that's wrong. AUTHOR refers to the package author -- since day one of
> > OE :)
>
> Mental note: AUTHOR != MAINTAINER :)

:)

> still the AUTHOR line is most of the time not correct. The best example is
> OpenStreetmap and and the creative commons license. It is not practicable
> to list all authors.

True. That's why it's only rarely used. I would not object to removing it 
completely.

> did you already revert that particual commit? or should i?

Nothing urgent. Please do when you have a chance.

Thanks,

:M:




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