From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sudip Mukherjee Subject: Re: [PATCH v13 1/2] serial: exar: split out the exar code from 8250_pci Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2017 22:13:44 +0000 Message-ID: <5898F518.3000402@gmail.com> References: <1485815302-5708-1-git-send-email-sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> <5894F6A2.5000609@gmail.com> <1a0e4034-007e-d5cf-27ff-eb382ead776e@siemens.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1a0e4034-007e-d5cf-27ff-eb382ead776e@siemens.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Jan Kiszka , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Jiri Slaby , Andy Shevchenko Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org 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