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

[Sudip Mukherjee]

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