AppFooter - Update copyright text (HDS-5553)

[KristinLBradley]

📌 Summary

If merged, this PR updates the AppFooter copyright text from "HashiCorp" to "HashiCorp, an IBM company"

Preview: https://hds-showcase-git-hds-5553-app-footer-copyright-update-hashicorp.vercel.app/components/app-footer

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• Jira ticket: HDS-5553

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[dchyun]

[Question] Is "company" supposed to be capitalized? I've seen it done both ways in our comms. It seems it's a bit inconsistent. My hunch would be not capitalized, but just want to raise it so we can be sure.

[jorytindall]

It does seem inconsistent, but the difference seems whether it's being used as a noun ("company"), or proper noun "…IBM Company", which to me seems like it should be a proper noun in this context where this is more of a brand/logo recognition question. So "HashiCorp, an IBM Company" seems right. Open to other interpretations, but good catch on the consistency portion. Might be worth calling that out to the folks who manage the website/branding.

[KristinLBradley]

I followed what was in the ticket which had "company" in lowercase.
https://hashicorp.atlassian.net/browse/HDS-5553

So should I change it to uppercase?

[didoo]

@KristinLBradley FYI there is already a PR opened by @DanielChenTO #3309 which is still incomplete (see @alex-ju comment here #3309 (review)); can you sync with them and see what is the best way forward to avoid duplicate/conflicting efforts?

[KristinLBradley]

@KristinLBradley FYI there is already a PR opened by @DanielChenTO #3309 which is still incomplete (see @alex-ju comment here #3309 (review)); can you sync with them and see what is the best way forward to avoid duplicate/conflicting efforts?

@didoo I added a comment suggesting that they close their PR in favor of this one.