If the only sticking point is that some authors want their name in a
top-level AUTHORS file in the source tree wouldn't it be possible to
accommodate that wish?  (Say with a fixed format string that is
grepped for and appended to /usr/src/AUTHORS).

Or are their other sticking points???

-wolfgang
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