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

[Sudip Mukherjee]

On Monday 06 February 2017 01:49 PM, 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. :)

well, I have been doing it this way from the very first day I started 
contributing.


Regards
Sudip