Re: [PATCH 2/5] bus: ti-sysc: Add a description and copyrights

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 04:49:07PM +0530, Dhruva Gole wrote:
> On Mar 27, 2024 at 10:15:05 +0200, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > The ti-sysc driver is missing coprights and description, let's add
> > those.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  drivers/bus/ti-sysc.c | 11 +++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/bus/ti-sysc.c b/drivers/bus/ti-sysc.c
> > --- a/drivers/bus/ti-sysc.c
> > +++ b/drivers/bus/ti-sysc.c
> > @@ -1,6 +1,17 @@
> >  // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> >  /*
> >   * ti-sysc.c - Texas Instruments sysc interconnect target driver
> > + *
> > + * TI SoCs have an interconnect target wrapper IP for many devices. The wrapper
> > + * IP manages clock gating, resets, and PM capabilities for the connected devices.
> > + *
> > + * Copyright (C) 2017-2024 Texas Instruments Incorporated - https://www.ti.com/
> > + *
> > + * Many features are based on the earlier omap_hwmod arch code with thanks to all
> > + * the people who developed and debugged the code over the years:
> > + *
> > + * Copyright (C) 2009-2011 Nokia Corporation
> > + * Copyright (C) 2011-2012 Texas Instruments, Inc.
> 
> +Nishant
> 
> I am no expert on the copyrights part of it, but who gets copyright from
> 2012 - 2017?

If there are no changes in those years, what exactly are you attempting
to copyright for those years?

Please talk to your corporate copyright lawyers about this.  I'm sure
there is a class you can take from them to explain all of this.  If not,
there's a free one online from the Linux Foundation that you might want
to take instead.

thanks,

greg k-h