Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de> writes:

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> So what apart from the parsability of a MODULE_MAINTAINER() tag,
> what is different from authors engraving their name into a
> comment at the start of the .c file?

Authors != maintainers.

A script could parse the tags and fill Cc: appropriately.

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> A number of .c files (even those that are not just built-in, but can
> also be built as =m) do not have a MODULE_AUTHOR(); and copyright is
> even valid when there is no apparent author name.

Sure, though it's a bit harder to find who is it exactly.
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa
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