A copyright notice is supposed to specify the years the work was created. Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[email protected]> 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-SMS1000-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 <[email protected]> --- 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 -Copyright (c) Siano Mobile Silicon Ltd. +Copyright (c) 2005-2014 Siano Mobile Silicon Ltd. All rights reserved. Redistribution. Redistribution and use in binary form, without
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