Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 06 Feb 2017 22:07:29 +0000 | From | Sudip Mukherjee <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v13 1/2] serial: exar: split out the exar code from 8250_pci |
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On Monday 06 February 2017 02:06 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Feb 06, 2017 at 02:49:07PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote: >> On 2017-02-03 22:31, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: >>> On Friday 03 February 2017 02:02 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote: >>>> BTW, are you personally the copyright holder or your employer Codethink? >>>> Depends on your contractual situation, but the former is less common. >>> >>> Well, Codethink has nothing to do with this patch. This was a voluntary >>> work started before I joined Codethink, but then I joined Codethink and >>> found very little time to finish this. So finally now its done. >>> >>> https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/pipermail/kernelnewbies/2015-November/015372.html >>> >> >> Hmm, why using your corporate email address then? This suggests a >> different copyright situation. >> >> Funnily, I just received this question internally: How can you tell >> apart if someone sends a personal contribution via his/her employer >> account from someone contributing on behalf of a company, thus with that >> company holding the rights? I argued that no one would do the former to >> prevent wrong accounting, but you just proved a counterexample. :) > > There are numerous companies that do this, some create whole shell > orginizations in order to "hide" their kernel contributions for various > "interesting" reasons. > > Fun stuff. I suggest having your internal people talk to your lawyers, > they should know all about this (and if not, have those lawyers talk to > the LF lawyers...) > > But that's not the issue here, we know Sudip :)
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Regards Sudip
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