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

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Tue Jan 9 17:39:13 UTC 2018


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.

-- 
Tom
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