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Strictly speaking, this is not a legal issue, but it seems to belong with copyright notices.
In any FSF-copyrighted GNU package, the authors of a file are not named in the copyright notice. Therefore, it is nice to include a comment line ‘Authors: authors of this file’ at the top near the copyright notice, to give them credit in close association with their contribution.