On 06/11/2015 10:28 AM, Greg KH wrote:

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If the copyright is owned by the company then ONLY the company can push

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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