It's not a concern for the _employer_ (unless we say something particularly inflammatory), in fact the organisation sees the benefit of the company name getting out there in technical circles. It's more a case of the _employee_ not wanting their name to show up in mailing list archives, similar to people that don't want a phone book listing or twitter/facebook/google+. One option is for someone (like me) to do the submission and work with upstream to get the change accepted, I don't have a problem with this but it does mean that if/when I move on I take the kudos (as well as the criticism) with me and the company loses out. On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 4:58 PM, Jason Ball <jason@ball.net> wrote:
I had a similar situation and managed to route patches via an intermediary to protect my employers anonymity at the time. You may (should) be able to find an appropriate sponsor depending on the nature of the customisations.
On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 7:19 PM, Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
This came up at work today and I'm not sure where the best place to ask is. I almost went straight to the lkml but I figured I'd start with newbies first.
We've been using the Linux kernel in our products for a number of years now. We're doing all the right things w.r.t GPL compliance but we're not actively pushing that much upstream. This means we're effectively maintaining our own Linux fork with very few resources. I'm trying to avoid this by encouraging developers to get their changes upstreamed.
This is good for our organisation because we don't have to re-do our changes when we need to take a new kernel version. Most developers see this as a good career building for them. But some developers value their individual privacy over career progression.
My initial response to that was well we can just make a dummy gmail account or even setup a swdept@$organisation shared address. But SubmittingPatches actually says to sign patches with your real name not a pseudonym.
Does this basically mean people that value privacy are unable to contribute?
Thanks, Chris
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