Re: [bug-mailutils] mailutils 0.3.1 distribution buglets

[Karl Berry]

    > In theory, the AUTHORS file should also record what files each person
    > worked on, for legal reasons.  Although it might be impossible to go
    > back and determine that for the past work, you could start doing it in
    > the future.  See the `Recording Contributors' node of maintain.texi.

    Isn't that the job of the ChangeLog file?

I guess the information is contained in the ChangeLog file, but the
ChangeLog contains lots of other information irrelevant for legal
purposes, and it would be hard to dig out all and only the legal author
info.  So it doesn't seem too horrific to me to have it separately.

In any case, all I know is what I read :).  You'd have to ask rms about
the whys and wherefores.