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

Message ID 20230104141245.8407-3-aford173@gmail.com
State New
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Series [1/4] arm64: dts: beacon-renesom: Fix gpio expander reference |

Commit Message

Adam Ford Jan. 4, 2023, 2:12 p.m. UTC 
  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@gmail.com>

Comments

Geert Uytterhoeven Jan. 6, 2023, 2:14 p.m. UTC | #1 
Hi Adam,

CC GregKH

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

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

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
                                -- Linus Torvalds
Adam Ford Jan. 6, 2023, 2:17 p.m. UTC | #2 
On Fri, Jan 6, 2023 at 8:14 AM Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Adam,
>
> CC GregKH
>
> On Wed, Jan 4, 2023 at 3:12 PM Adam Ford <aford173@gmail.com> 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@gmail.com>
>
> 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.

OK.   We can drop this patch from the series.

thanks,

adam
>
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
>
>                         Geert
>
> --
> Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org
>
> In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
> when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
>                                 -- Linus Torvalds
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Patch

diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/renesas/beacon-renesom-baseboard.dtsi b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/renesas/beacon-renesom-baseboard.dtsi
index 8b6fe235a8f0..b7741c10e778 100644
--- 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
  */
 
 #include <dt-bindings/gpio/gpio.h>
diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/renesas/beacon-renesom-som.dtsi b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/renesas/beacon-renesom-som.dtsi
index 1eb713530878..86a9d6381166 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/renesas/beacon-renesom-som.dtsi
+++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/renesas/beacon-renesom-som.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
  */
 
 #include <dt-bindings/gpio/gpio.h>
diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/renesas/r8a774a1-beacon-rzg2m-kit.dts b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/renesas/r8a774a1-beacon-rzg2m-kit.dts
index 9ae67263c0df..7c0e3252ce65 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/renesas/r8a774a1-beacon-rzg2m-kit.dts
+++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/renesas/r8a774a1-beacon-rzg2m-kit.dts
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ 
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
 /*
- * Copyright 2020, Compass Electronics Group, LLC
+ * Copyright 2020, Logic PD, Inc. dba Beacon EmbeddedWorks
  */
 
 /dts-v1/;
diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/renesas/r8a774b1-beacon-rzg2n-kit.dts b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/renesas/r8a774b1-beacon-rzg2n-kit.dts
index 89d708346ba8..f1fbd687d0f4 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/renesas/r8a774b1-beacon-rzg2n-kit.dts
+++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/renesas/r8a774b1-beacon-rzg2n-kit.dts
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ 
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
 /*
- * Copyright 2020, Compass Electronics Group, LLC
+ * Copyright 2020, Logic PD, Inc. dba Beacon EmbeddedWorks
  */
 
 /dts-v1/;
diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/renesas/r8a774e1-beacon-rzg2h-kit.dts b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/renesas/r8a774e1-beacon-rzg2h-kit.dts
index 3e9ced3b2d33..7ee1a1bed212 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/renesas/r8a774e1-beacon-rzg2h-kit.dts
+++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/renesas/r8a774e1-beacon-rzg2h-kit.dts
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ 
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
 /*
- * Copyright 2020, Compass Electronics Group, LLC
+ * Copyright 2020, Logic PD, Inc. dba Beacon EmbeddedWorks
  */
 
 /dts-v1/;