AUTHORS why have this file?

[arif-ali]

In all the man pages we direct that the authors and contributors of sos as listed in the AUTHORS.

This file has not been updated since June 2017, and the regular contributors since have not been added since.

If this file has no value, then we should remove it, and remove all directions to it in the man pages as well as any other locations.

We still ship this file in all Debian/Ubuntu systems, and possibly in RPM based platforms too.

However, if we want to keep this updated, then all good, I'll start working to get this updated

[TurboTurtle]

It's definitely a sign of just how long sos has been around - it used to be a normal addition to projects managed by version control systems but the practice has absolutely fell out of favor over the years.

I think it's fine if we drop it, but if anyone is particularly attached to keeping it around then we can update it to add the new contributors since the last update.

[pmoravec]

I dont have strong preference. Authorship and any potential copyright crap is implicit from commits, having AUTHORS file just explicitly denotes that.

Either drop the file or update it automatically from git history, like:

git log | grep ^Author | sort -u | sed "s/^Author: //g"

(and probably drop some of archaic semi-anonymous "authors" like sconklin <sconklin@ef72aa8b-4018-0410-8976-d6e080ef94d8> or httpd <httpd@ef72aa8b-4018-0410-8976-d6e080ef94d8>?)