+1

Thank you for tracking all of the approvals down, that's no small task.

Christopher Bradford



On Wed, Nov 12, 2025 at 6:43 AM Mick <[email protected]> wrote:

> For commits that are after the SGA date we need approval from their
> authors that their contributions can be transferred.  This can be
> implicit/lazy for Cassandra committers. We will need a "+1 to <sha> also
> being donated" from Daniel (if you can chase that up Bret please).  That
> can be either on this thread or on the (now closed) donation PR.
>
> Another legit question that's come up is we don't have consent from all
> past contributors.  Here we are taking a similar approach to past donations
> where we track this in the NOTICE file: we make mention of the donation SHA
> and contributors from before that we were unable to reach.
>
>
>
>
> > On 12 Nov 2025, at 05:02, Bret McGuire <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >    Both the C/C++ and Python driver have "extra" commits added after the
> IP clearance form was created.  In C/C++ case the commit in question was
> driven by the branch pruning completed as part of the donation process,
> while for the Python driver this came about due to branch pruning combined
> with the release of 3.29.3.  If I'm not mistaken all of these commits come
> from myself (a PMC member) or Brad Schoening (a Cassandra committer).  The
> only exception that I've found is one commit (
> https://github.com/datastax/python-driver/commit/b144a84a1f97002c4545b335efaac719519cd9fa)
> on the Python driver from Daniel Bershatsky, and I've confirmed that we do
> have a signed DataStax CLA from him.  I would welcome anybody who wants to
> double-check those results! :)
> >
> >    Given this information it seems like we're covered from a
> copyright/licensing question for all contributions since the SHAs specified
> in the IP clearance form.  That said, I am certainly NOT a lawyer so I will
> wait for Mick (or somebody else who knows more about this than I do) to
> enumerate what steps (if any) we need to take here.
> >
> >    - Bret -
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 11, 2025 at 5:01 PM C. Scott Andreas <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > +1
> >
> > Note that there was one documentation cleanup PR that merged to the C++
> driver since the SHA proposed for donation (d9ae6b9) in commit f81cba4 by
> Bret that would not be included according to the SHA listed at the IP
> clearance link:
> https://incubator.apache.org/ip-clearance/cassandra-cpp-driver.html
> >
> >> On Nov 11, 2025, at 2:48 PM, Mick <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> Cassandra PMC members, please check carefully the IP Clearance
> requirements before voting.
> >>> general@incubator is cc'd, only a lazy consensus is required from the
> IPMC.
> >>>
> >>> The vote will be open for 72 hours (or longer). Votes by PMC members
> are considered binding. A vote passes if there are at least three binding
> +1s and no -1's.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> +1
> >
> >
> >
>
>

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