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Message-ID: <CAHCN7xJhHXTmf+rVf9JsMyT0ZdLGGpMktMXO4Gwc5BCHoitp6w@mail.gmail.com> 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. > -- Linus Torvalds
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