remove unused AUTHOR variable

No longer used in generating packages
Also creates a possible confusion with the recipe maintainer
name.

Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>

3 files changed, 0 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/cjson/cjson_1.7.15.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/cjson/cjson_1.7.15.bb
index 200f751669..8bf7981ab0 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/cjson/cjson_1.7.15.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/cjson/cjson_1.7.15.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "Ultralightweight JSON parser in ANSI C"
-AUTHOR = "Dave Gamble"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/DaveGamble/cJSON"
 SECTION = "libs"
 LICENSE = "MIT"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/cloc/cloc_1.94.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/cloc/cloc_1.94.bb
index 2f92d81001..37a21cc3a6 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/cloc/cloc_1.94.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/cloc/cloc_1.94.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 SUMMARY = "Count blank lines, comment lines, and physical lines of source code \
 in many programming languages."
-AUTHOR = "Al Danial"
 
 LICENSE="GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=2c1c00f9d3ed9e24fa69b932b7e7aff2"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/guider/guider_3.9.8.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/guider/guider_3.9.8.bb
index 30d17c84b3..15d43e9790 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/guider/guider_3.9.8.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/guider/guider_3.9.8.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "performance analyzer"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/iipeace/guider"
 BUGTRACKER = "https://github.com/iipeace/guider/issues"
-AUTHOR = "Peace Lee <ipeace5@gmail.com>"
 
 LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=2c1c00f9d3ed9e24fa69b932b7e7aff2"