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In-Reply-To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
       "How to people feel about adding an AUTHOR convention to ports?" (Aug 24,  2:22am)
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On Aug 24,  2:22am, "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote:
} That is, a variable defined in the Makefile which contains an author
} string purely for 2 cosmetic reasons...

How would you deal with "original" versus "current" author, e.g.,
"XPaint" was written by David Koblas but is now being maintained by
Torsten Martinsen?
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