From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753397AbdBFNtT (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Feb 2017 08:49:19 -0500 Received: from goliath.siemens.de ([192.35.17.28]:56930 "EHLO goliath.siemens.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751592AbdBFNtQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Feb 2017 08:49:16 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH v13 1/2] serial: exar: split out the exar code from 8250_pci To: Sudip Mukherjee , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Jiri Slaby , Andy Shevchenko References: <1485815302-5708-1-git-send-email-sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> <5894F6A2.5000609@gmail.com> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org From: Jan Kiszka Message-ID: <1a0e4034-007e-d5cf-27ff-eb382ead776e@siemens.com> Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2017 14:49:07 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); de; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080226 SUSE/2.0.0.12-1.1 Thunderbird/2.0.0.12 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <5894F6A2.5000609@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. :) Regards, Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT RDA ITP SES-DE Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux