linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 7/7] clk: qcom: gcc: Add support for Global Clock Controller

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Message-ID: <aJ5l+0Fv7nm2vKuZ@hu-bjorande-lv.qualcomm.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2025 15:51:02 -0700
From: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@....qualcomm.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>,
        Bjorn Andersson <andersson@...nel.org>,
        Pankaj Patil <pankaj.patil@....qualcomm.com>, sboyd@...nel.org,
        mturquette@...libre.com, robh@...nel.org, krzk+dt@...nel.org,
        conor+dt@...nel.org, quic_rjendra@...cinc.com,
        taniya.das@....qualcomm.com, linux-clk@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] clk: qcom: gcc: Add support for Global Clock
 Controller

On Wed, Aug 13, 2025 at 06:19:20PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 20, 2025 at 02:18:19PM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> > On 20/07/2025 05:46, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jul 16, 2025 at 06:28:15PM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> > >> On 16/07/2025 17:20, Pankaj Patil wrote:
> > > [..]
> > >>> diff --git a/drivers/clk/qcom/gcc-glymur.c b/drivers/clk/qcom/gcc-glymur.c
> > >>> new file mode 100644
> > >>> index 000000000000..a1a6da62ed35
> > >>> --- /dev/null
> > >>> +++ b/drivers/clk/qcom/gcc-glymur.c
> > >>> @@ -0,0 +1,8623 @@
> > >>> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
> > >>> +/*
> > >>> + * Copyright (c) Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries.
> > >>
> > >> Missing date.
> > >>
> > > 
> > > Per updated company guidelines we don't want a year here. Please let us
> > > know if you have any concerns with this.
> > > 
> > I remember the guidelines and they were about publishing your code, not
> > about contributing to open-source projects. And whatever you have
> > internally does not cover us at all. You can have internal guideline
> > saying you need to buy me a beer or I need to buy you a beer. Does not
> > matter.
> > 
> > That above copyright statement without date does not adhere to expected
> > format. Explanation how this should be written:
> > 
> > https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.en.html#copyright-notice
> > 
> > The GPL-2.0 license in the kernel also uses date:
> > 
> > "Copyright (C) <year>  <name of author>    "
> > 
> > There is no option without date in the license or GPL faq. I am not a
> > lawyer, so no clue whether this is what we want, but I also should not
> > be my task to figure out whether different copyright statement is okay
> > or not. It's your burden.
> > 
> > Or drop the Copyright statement complete to avoid any questions.
> 
> Note, we don't take legal advice from the FSF :)
> 
> That being said, any/none of the above is just fine, there's not even a
> requirement for a copyright line at all.  It's up to the author of the
> file as to the format for what they want to do in the end, none of it
> matters to the actual existance of the copyright itself, which is
> implicit with or without a copyright line.
> 

Thank you for your guidance, Greg.

Then we choose to follow the format used in this patch, without the
year, going forward.

Thank you,
Bjorn

> thanks,
> 
> greg "I talk to too many lawyers" k-h