From: ruben@mrbrklyn.com (Ruben Safir)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Kernel contributions from organisations and individual privacy
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 10:41:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55799E35.5080608@mrbrklyn.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150611142829.GC17984@kroah.com>
On 06/11/2015 10:28 AM, Greg KH wrote:
>> If the copyright is owned by the company then ONLY the company can push
>> > it up stream and assign copyright to the Linux Foundation.
> No one assigns kernel copyright to the Linux Foundation unless you have
> entered into some odd business agreement with that legal entity. And
> that is quite rare to do so and takes lots of lawyers and time.
It doesn't take a lot of lawyers anymore than a license would. I
thought that the Foundation requests this routinely in order so that it
has standing in court if a lawsuit should happen. The FSF has copyright
to a large bulk of the software under GNU for this reason.
Obviously you have first hand knowledge of practice I don't have, but
copyright is a huge problem with contrition. In order to contribute,
you must have copyright ownership. You can't prove that if your anonymous.
Ruben
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-11 14:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-10 9:19 Kernel contributions from organisations and individual privacy Chris Packham
2015-06-11 4:58 ` Jason Ball
2015-06-11 5:10 ` Chris Packham
2015-06-11 5:19 ` Ruben Safir
2015-06-11 14:28 ` Greg KH
2015-06-11 14:41 ` Ruben Safir [this message]
2015-06-11 15:38 ` Greg KH
2015-06-11 16:39 ` Ruben Safir
2015-06-11 17:54 ` Greg KH
2015-06-11 17:57 ` Greg KH
2015-06-11 23:26 ` Ruben Safir
2015-06-11 23:37 ` Rik van Riel
2015-06-11 23:55 ` Ruben Safir
2015-06-12 0:13 ` Jeff Haran
2015-06-12 1:28 ` Rik van Riel
2015-06-12 23:29 ` Jeff Haran
2015-06-13 15:40 ` Bjørn Mork
2015-06-13 19:08 ` Ruben Safir
2015-06-15 23:08 ` Jeff Haran
2015-06-15 23:55 ` Rik van Riel
2015-06-16 16:23 ` Jeff Haran
2015-06-13 16:23 ` Rik van Riel
2015-06-14 21:18 ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
[not found] ` <B424B28F-AB7E-4972-95BB-FF91D85D0FED@gmail.com>
2015-06-14 23:29 ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
[not found] ` <557E0FF7.1000607@gmail.com>
2015-06-15 2:08 ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
2015-06-12 0:52 ` Greg KH
2015-06-12 3:31 ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
2015-06-12 4:39 ` Ruben Safir
2015-06-12 7:18 ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
2015-06-11 13:13 ` Rik van Riel
2015-06-11 14:27 ` Greg KH
2015-06-11 14:25 ` Greg KH
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