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A copyright notice is supposed to specify the years the work was created. Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> 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 <ben@decadent.org.uk>main
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