* [PATCH linux-firmware] LICENCE.siano: Add copyright years [not found] <20161203192815.79192463@vento.lan> @ 2016-12-05 4:11 ` Ben Hutchings 2016-12-05 9:12 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab 0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread From: Ben Hutchings @ 2016-12-05 4:11 UTC (permalink / raw) To: linux-kernel, linux-firmware; +Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1700 bytes --] A copyright notice is supposed to specify the years the work was created. Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> 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 <ben@decadent.org.uk> --- 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 [-- Attachment #2: Digital signature --] [-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 811 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply related [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
* Re: [PATCH linux-firmware] LICENCE.siano: Add copyright years 2016-12-05 4:11 ` [PATCH linux-firmware] LICENCE.siano: Add copyright years Ben Hutchings @ 2016-12-05 9:12 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab 0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab @ 2016-12-05 9:12 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Ben Hutchings; +Cc: linux-kernel, linux-firmware Em Mon, 5 Dec 2016 04:11:05 +0000 Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> escreveu: > A copyright notice is supposed to specify the years the work was > created. > > Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> 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 <ben@decadent.org.uk> Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> > --- > 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
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