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Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2017 10:45:27 +0100 From: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org> To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Legal question: Author, Sign-off, Company Copyright and gmail Hi all, I noticed a practice when the patches are submitted where I'm a bit confused about how it fits with the DCO. People are creating gmail accounts to send patches on behalf of their company because the company's email configuration does not allow to send patches or adds extra infos, or whatever... That ends up with patches submitted by a gmail account with no history and verifiable origin and new files containing a company copyright [1]. At the first glance I would say, it is not allowed, and if a company is willing to do opensource, it should provide the tools to its employees to do so. But I don't want block patch submission if this practice is tolerated. What is the policy in this case ? Thanks in advance. -- Daniel [1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10045815/ -- <http://www.linaro.org/> Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: <http://www.facebook.com/pages/Linaro> Facebook | <http://twitter.com/#!/linaroorg> Twitter | <http://www.linaro.org/linaro-blog/> Blog
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