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If you work for #IBM, you're not allowed to use your personal email for anything not involving IBM

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net.git/commit/?id=4acd47644ef1e1c8f8f5bc40b7cf1c5b9bcbbc4e

"As an IBM employee, you are not allowed to use your gmail account to work in any way on VNIC. You are not allowed to use your personal email account as a "hobby". You are an IBM employee 100% of the time. Please remove yourself completely from the maintainers file. I grant you a 1 time exception on contributions to VNIC to make this change."

A boring dystopia

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Paolo Redaelli
Paolo Redaelli  
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Is the employee a #redhat developer? Has the contribution been made at work or in freetime, offwork? This is quite important. If the second answer is yes then that IBM executive have just worded it badly as the © could rightly belong to the employer
Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan  
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It doesn't matter to crediting their name and their personal Gmail account for this work. It matters for other stuff license-related, but not for this. It isn't badly worded, it's a massive personal freedom encroachment. You should be able use your personal email address however you see fit without your employment being threatened.
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