[PATCH 1/3] Framework for exporting System-on-Chip information via sysfs

[lee.jones@linaro.org (Lee Jones)]

Hi Russell,

>>> Ok, in that case, I'd suggest you use your ST-Ericsson address for
>>> Signed-off-by and the author statement above.
>>
>> I'm not an ST-Ericsson employee, thus do not have an associated address.
>>
>> I work for Linaro, currently on assignment to ST-Ericsson.
> 
> It was my understanding gained last week was that Linaro is a separate
> organization, and that while folk are working for Linaro, stuff they
> create belongs to Linaro and not the company whose office they happen
> to be sitting in.
> 
> I also thought Linaro was supposed to be an organization for solving
> the _common_ problems being experienced by each member organization,
> rather than being a contracting house to any one particular
> organization.  Am I mistaken?

You are not mistaken for the most part. However, you are referring to
the engineering work carried out by the engineers contained in the
Linaro Working Groups. The role I occupy within the company is slightly
different. I lead a group of individuals called a "Landing Team". There
are currently four of these within Linaro; ST-Ericsson (mine), Texas
Instruments, Samsung and Freescale, with a view on increasing that
number over the upcoming months. The Landing Team's main purpose is to
upstream as much code as possible for a previously specified SoC, in our
case the u8500. How the Landing Team spends their time is my
responsibility and as such (unless Linaro or ST-Ericsson management have
a special request) is depicted by me.

With regards to the Copyright label, I will endeavor to find a
definitive answer. We came to the conclusion of "Written by Linaro for
ST-Ericsson" some time ago in a Landing Team meeting we held some months
ago. If you or Arnd see this as an issue clearly we need to have more
meetings and involve more senior people from Linaro to chase a
conclusive answer.

Thanks for your time and input Russell and Arnd, it is appreciated.

Kind regards,
Lee Jones
Team Lead, Linaro ST-Ericsson Landing Team