linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/4] arm64: dts: renesas: r8a774[a/b/e]1-beacon: Update corporate name

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Date:   Fri, 6 Jan 2023 08:17:37 -0600
From:   Adam Ford <aford173@...il.com>
To:     Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:     linux-renesas-soc@...r.kernel.org, aford@...conembedded.com,
        Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@...il.com>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] arm64: dts: renesas: r8a774[a/b/e]1-beacon: Update
 corporate name

On Fri, Jan 6, 2023 at 8:14 AM Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Adam,
>
> CC GregKH
>
> On Wed, Jan 4, 2023 at 3:12 PM Adam Ford <aford173@...il.com> wrote:
> > At the end of 2021, Beacon EmbeddedWorks was sold off from Compass.
> > Its legal name is now 'Logic PD, Inc. dba Beacon EmbeddedWorks" and
> > as far as I know Compass Electronics doesn't exist anymore.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Adam Ford <aford173@...il.com>
>
> Thanks for your patch!
>
> > --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/renesas/beacon-renesom-baseboard.dtsi
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/renesas/beacon-renesom-baseboard.dtsi
> > @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
> >  // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> >  /*
> > - * Copyright 2020, Compass Electronics Group, LLC
> > + * Copyright 2020, Logic PD, Inc. dba Beacon EmbeddedWorks
>
> IANAL, but I don't think this change is appropriate: the copyright date
> is 2020, which is the year when the file was created, and the copyright
> owner at that time was Compass.  The current copyright owner is the
> current owner of the assets of Compass, which may change again in
> the future.
>
> I'm also not aware of people changing copyright headers for code owned
> by now defunct companies, see the existence of code still copyrighted
> by e.g. Motorola Inc., Digital Equipment Corporation, and Compaq
> Computer Corporation.
>
> If/when you make (substantial) changes to these files, you can add a
> "Copyright 2023, Logic PD, Inc. dba Beacon EmbeddedWorks" line.

OK.   We can drop this patch from the series.

thanks,

adam
>
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
>
>                         Geert
>
> --
> Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@...ux-m68k.org
>
> In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
> when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
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