Re: [PATCH v13 1/2] serial: exar: split out the exar code from 8250_pci

From: Jan Kiszka
Date: Mon Feb 06 2017 - 08:49:21 EST


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

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