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 _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
