AUTHOR variable, yocto recipe

http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.7/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual....

По ходу это автор рецепта таки:

Descriptive information about the package (author, homepage, license, and so on)
Note
The term «package» is also commonly used to describe recipes. However, since the same word is used to describe packaged output from a project, it is best to maintain a single descriptive term - «recipes». Put another way, a single «recipe» file is quite capable of generating a number of related but separately installable «packages». In fact, that ability is fairly common. 

Буду знать :)