From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752780AbcLEJO0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Dec 2016 04:14:26 -0500 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.9]:35830 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751427AbcLEJMd (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Dec 2016 04:12:33 -0500 Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2016 07:12:26 -0200 From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab To: Ben Hutchings Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-firmware@kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH linux-firmware] LICENCE.siano: Add copyright years Message-ID: <20161205071215.3317938e@vento.lan> In-Reply-To: <20161205041105.GO2697@decadent.org.uk> References: <20161203192815.79192463@vento.lan> <20161205041105.GO2697@decadent.org.uk> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.14.1 (GTK+ 2.24.31; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org. See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Em Mon, 5 Dec 2016 04:11:05 +0000 Ben Hutchings escreveu: > A copyright notice is supposed to specify the years the work was > created. > > Mauro Carvalho Chehab writes: > > The oldest copyright I found for the Siano Linux driver is 2005, as > > you can see at: > > drivers/media/common/siano/smscoreapi.c > > > > As the driver talks with the Siano firmware, it has to be written > > before or together with the driver. > > > > Browsing at the new, that seems to match the oldest news about the > > first chipset supported by the driver (sms1000) is from 2006: > > http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20061206005282/en/Siano-SMS1000-Mobile-Digital-TV-Receiver-Chip > > > > This driver supports both the sms1xx and the newer sms27xx > > chipsets. Due to that, the Rio firmware (ISDB-T) s probably newer, > > as it support only the sms27xx chips, but it could be based on the > > DVB-T firmware. > > > > So, if you really want to put some timestamp, except if someone > > at either Siano or Hauppauge could tell us otherwise, I would stick > > with a copyright notice starting from 2005, going u to the year that > > they got merged at the firmware tree (as some changes might have > > happened until the final version). > > So I'm specifying 2005-2014. > > Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab > --- > LICENCE.siano | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/LICENCE.siano b/LICENCE.siano > index c100136b585e..97e54402efc3 100644 > --- a/LICENCE.siano > +++ b/LICENCE.siano > @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ > FIRMWARE LICENSE TERMS > > -Copyright (c) Siano Mobile Silicon Ltd. > +Copyright (c) 2005-2014 Siano Mobile Silicon Ltd. > All rights reserved. > > Redistribution. Redistribution and use in binary form, without Thanks, Mauro