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

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Date:   Mon, 06 Feb 2017 22:13:44 +0000
From:   Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
To:     Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@...mens.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
CC:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-serial@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v13 1/2] serial: exar: split out the exar code from 8250_pci

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