Re: [PATCH 3/4] arm64: dts: renesas: r8a774[a/b/e]1-beacon: Update corporate name

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Adam,

CC GregKH

On Wed, Jan 4, 2023 at 3:12 PM Adam Ford <aford173@xxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxx>

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.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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