From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp2.linuxfoundation.org (smtp2.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.36]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D10B7943 for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2016 16:17:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtprelay.hostedemail.com (smtprelay0247.hostedemail.com [216.40.44.247]) by smtp2.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3FECE1DB99 for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2016 16:17:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtprelay.hostedemail.com (10.5.19.251.rfc1918.com [10.5.19.251]) by smtpgrave05.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2E28184467 for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2016 16:16:20 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 12:16:15 -0400 From: Steven Rostedt To: James Bottomley Message-ID: <20160829121615.25e5ddce@gandalf.local.home> In-Reply-To: <1472486062.2376.26.camel@HansenPartnership.com> References: <1472403654.2420.29.camel@HansenPartnership.com> <20160829090703.1c063975@gandalf.local.home> <1472486062.2376.26.camel@HansenPartnership.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Linus Torvalds , ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] Owning your own copyrights in Linux List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Mon, 29 Aug 2016 08:54:22 -0700 James Bottomley wrote: > The rest of this is a bit offtopic (it would be on topic in the GPL Sorry for hijacking your thread ;-) > defence thread). However, all I will say is that at the moment, if you > don't own copyrights on your own contributions to Linux (and if you > took no actions to make this happen, you likely don't), you have no > legal standing in any GPL enforcement and a court would likely not even > bother listening to your opinion. Personally, I have a small amount of copyrights in the kernel that were done while I was self employed. But a lot more belong to my current employer. I have mixed feelings about trying to own those. One, I trust my current employer with those copyrights, and two, they paid me to do that code. It was never done "on my own time". I don't feel right trying to claim copyright for code I was paid for, even if it was all my idea to create. But that may not be the case in the future, and I would like to know my options. -- Steve