[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 2/6] am335x-fb: cosmetic: update-copyright

Hannes Schmelzer hannes at schmelzer.or.at
Tue Jan 9 17:51:28 UTC 2018


On 01/09/2018 06:39 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 06:35:04PM +0100, Hannes Schmelzer wrote:
>> mfG
>> Schmelzer Hannes
>>
>> On 01/09/2018 05:04 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 04:44:43PM +0100, Hannes Schmelzer wrote:
>>>> Signed-off-by: Hannes Schmelzer <oe5hpm at oevsv.at>
>>>> ---
>>>>
>>>> Changes in v2: None
>>>>
>>>>   drivers/video/am335x-fb.c | 4 ++--
>>>>   drivers/video/am335x-fb.h | 4 ++--
>>>>   2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/video/am335x-fb.c b/drivers/video/am335x-fb.c
>>>> index a8b3e74..8cdd2ec 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/video/am335x-fb.c
>>>> +++ b/drivers/video/am335x-fb.c
>>>> @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
>>>>   /*
>>>> - * Copyright (C) 2013 Hannes Schmelzer <oe5hpm at oevsv.at>
>>>> - * Bernecker & Rainer Industrieelektronik GmbH - http://www.br-automation.com
>>>> + * Copyright (C) 2018 Hannes Schmelzer <oe5hpm at oevsv.at>
>>>> + * B&R Industrial Automation GmbH - http://www.br-automation.com
>>> I am not a lawyer, but shouldn't you either be doing inclusive or
>>> 2013,2018, whichever the currently suggested (or company legal dept) way
>>> is?  And then fold this into 4/6 where you're making real changes,
>>> please.  Thanks!
>>>
>> Hi Tom,
>> thanks for input. I'm also not sure about this, since i'm not a lawyer too.
>> But from the point of view, that the old company doesn't exist any more
>> after the name change i think it shouldn't be a problem for doing so.
>>
>> If you're are also fine with this, i would suggest to take the patch as it
>> is.
> Ugh.  If "Bernecker & Rainer Industrieelektronik GmbH" is now legally
> "B&R Industrial Automation GmbH", I would assume you can just extend the
> copyright years.  Dropping 2013 and making it 2018 isn't the right way,
> that much I do know.
Yeah, your'e right. So let it look like:

+ * Copyright (C) 2013-2018 Hannes Schmelzer <oe5hpm at oevsv.at>
+ * B&R Industrial Automation GmbH - http://www.br-automation.com

I've to confess, that i haven't thought about that in that deep.

cheers,
Hannes




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