From: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com>,
Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v13 1/2] serial: exar: split out the exar code from 8250_pci
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2017 22:07:29 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5898F3A1.2050004@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170206140616.GA9872@kroah.com>
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 :)
:)
Regards
Sudip
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-06 22:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-30 22:28 [PATCH v13 1/2] serial: exar: split out the exar code from 8250_pci Sudip Mukherjee
2017-01-30 22:28 ` [PATCH v13 2/2] serial: 8250_pci: remove exar code Sudip Mukherjee
2017-02-03 14:02 ` [PATCH v13 1/2] serial: exar: split out the exar code from 8250_pci Jan Kiszka
2017-02-03 14:08 ` Andy Shevchenko
2017-02-03 21:31 ` Sudip Mukherjee
2017-02-04 14:51 ` Andy Shevchenko
2017-02-06 13:49 ` Jan Kiszka
2017-02-06 14:06 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-02-06 14:20 ` Jan Kiszka
2017-02-06 22:07 ` Sudip Mukherjee [this message]
2017-02-06 22:13 ` Sudip Mukherjee
2017-02-06 14:45 ` Jan Kiszka
2017-02-06 22:04 ` Sudip Mukherjee
2017-02-07 10:09 ` Jan Kiszka
2017-02-06 19:37 ` Jan Kiszka
2017-02-06 19:47 ` Jan Kiszka
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