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(Get the code!)
1) I played around with footprints including edge cuts and to me it seems as if drc does combine the lines within a footprint and what is drawn on the board.
2) It also seems to work correctly if two footprints define edge cuts and these are placed right next to each other (such that their edge cuts definition directly combines without an additional line in between them)
3) It also notices if the edge cuts line is not closed within the footprint.
I can then connect the outline ends of this footprint within pcb new and this is then discovered as a closed outline.
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By the way i am on version 5.1.4.
My test project is attached should anybody be interested (quick and dirty so not all edge cuts lines are orthogonal). It is in the "no drc errors" stage. J2 and J3 together test (2). J2 is modifed to test (3) (It has a broken outline near its top left corner. remove the edge cuts line that closes it to test it.) J1, J2 and J3 together test (1).
So either the DRC algorithm is more advanced than you are aware of or something here happens on accident in the way a user would expect it to work.