From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752942AbdBFOVg (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Feb 2017 09:21:36 -0500 Received: from thoth.sbs.de ([192.35.17.2]:35941 "EHLO thoth.sbs.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752541AbdBFOVc (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Feb 2017 09:21:32 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH v13 1/2] serial: exar: split out the exar code from 8250_pci To: Greg Kroah-Hartman References: <1485815302-5708-1-git-send-email-sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> <5894F6A2.5000609@gmail.com> <1a0e4034-007e-d5cf-27ff-eb382ead776e@siemens.com> <20170206140616.GA9872@kroah.com> Cc: Sudip Mukherjee , Jiri Slaby , Andy Shevchenko , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org From: Jan Kiszka Message-ID: <49603724-3989-c6c0-2c7d-aee758985aa9@siemens.com> Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2017 15:20:54 +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: <20170206140616.GA9872@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2017-02-06 15:06, 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. I was not talking about companies but individuals: If they use their company address for something written in their spare time (and their contract allow to keep ownership of that), they needless suggest their company holds the copyright that way around. If they stick with a private address, it remains more clearly in their hand. What you mentioned is a different story and can indeed be interesting for the companies when they realize they would like for prove their code ownership to some legal authority for whatever reason. Anyway, off-topic now. Jan > > 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 :) > > thanks, > > greg k-h > -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT RDA ITP SES-DE Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux