From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH) Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 07:28:29 -0700 Subject: Kernel contributions from organisations and individual privacy In-Reply-To: <55791A7C.1030904@mrbrklyn.com> References: <55791A7C.1030904@mrbrklyn.com> Message-ID: <20150611142829.GC17984@kroah.com> To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 01:19:56AM -0400, Ruben Safir wrote: > On 06/11/2015 01:10 AM, Chris Packham wrote: > > It's not a concern for the _employer > > > If the copyright is owned by the company then ONLY the company can push > it up stream and assign copyright to the Linux Foundation. No one assigns kernel copyright to the Linux Foundation unless you have entered into some odd business agreement with that legal entity. And that is quite rare to do so and takes lots of lawyers and time. greg k-h