From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751955AbcLEELM (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Dec 2016 23:11:12 -0500 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:34064 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751427AbcLEELK (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Dec 2016 23:11:10 -0500 Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2016 04:11:05 +0000 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-firmware@kernel.org Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Message-ID: <20161205041105.GO2697@decadent.org.uk> References: <20161203192815.79192463@vento.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="6zn93sY2JrH9m7VZ" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20161203192815.79192463@vento.lan> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk Subject: [PATCH linux-firmware] LICENCE.siano: Add copyright years X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Mon, 26 Dec 2011 16:24:06 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --6zn93sY2JrH9m7VZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable A copyright notice is supposed to specify the years the work was created. Mauro Carvalho Chehab writes: > The oldest copyright I found for the Siano Linux driver is 2005, as > you can see at: > drivers/media/common/siano/smscoreapi.c > > As the driver talks with the Siano firmware, it has to be written > before or together with the driver. > > Browsing at the new, that seems to match the oldest news about the > first chipset supported by the driver (sms1000) is from 2006: > http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20061206005282/en/Siano-SMS= 1000-Mobile-Digital-TV-Receiver-Chip > > This driver supports both the sms1xx and the newer sms27xx > chipsets. Due to that, the Rio firmware (ISDB-T) s probably newer, > as it support only the sms27xx chips, but it could be based on the > DVB-T firmware. > > So, if you really want to put some timestamp, except if someone > at either Siano or Hauppauge could tell us otherwise, I would stick > with a copyright notice starting from 2005, going u to the year that > they got merged at the firmware tree (as some changes might have > happened until the final version). So I'm specifying 2005-2014. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- LICENCE.siano | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/LICENCE.siano b/LICENCE.siano index c100136b585e..97e54402efc3 100644 --- a/LICENCE.siano +++ b/LICENCE.siano @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ FIRMWARE LICENSE TERMS =20 -Copyright (c) Siano Mobile Silicon Ltd. +Copyright (c) 2005-2014 Siano Mobile Silicon Ltd. All rights reserved. =20 Redistribution. Redistribution and use in binary form, without --6zn93sY2JrH9m7VZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIVAwUBWETo2ee/yOyVhhEJAQoL6w//ZPJml3nIOKyDIGfscyuV3kY31duAZpr2 IH/VZGGpG9j4M1rMunrE6tRe9zk3FGqhkCX5ifL8B87YtPTCWzWE8h2+iry75xZv 1T4CGG146JZ+s2HAyyXmSJH8FQ5ZmwRb+goDvggc7kPOTAX8+IJxyvu77fBp4CQ0 h5KF0rdYlgNsokPZmjr3aZXbkgkuU1ka9dLmbWahptq6twRmxO1Id3kx32mqtirR Sk8HdU9C64TStYLOAZJs3gdNA7LStAMpbj0DtIXAU36DwnWVGanklaixBMPEcpbl AXGgWtP4tsecHHmTR5+Pzn7co1R6vzojCkfv+BY09A5AxGyZNVKmOM+m0JV9x2WK SRuDX7e7RZ8Z31BdatCF6aDHIMO2MrtLYnqM68HSK/dEbnkcwpKHmVQhonG+gElt veGimTsfzQGe+hAauLQXfyIF1f6sKNKwyK+annH74PFDkyM76uT2itssmwYjYPLC ucNa5uZeo/kbRVREHpn6ZAIOwGBXZ9LxVLCtrZa3Qyc1hgjDYMazm43HvWQHWbEW pCiW48OmwEQb+vX5USNJUf7ozUnfae7Fm7ow70eotRqYM9NL3XKJ3dZB9dZgnelQ xFVUMqdysyYaZGaZjoakWZtmodI52lj22hYb2OfsxC9MYZ93RLBm6oBrjqcQcB04 NnNOTCA0Krc= =Ro4Q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --6zn93sY2JrH9m7VZ--