Checked IP Clearance
I see libssh which is LGPL mentioned in the linked PR comments. I could not
find the use of libssh in the code only libssh2 which uses a BSD 3 clause
license.

Code looks good.
Besides libssh mentioned above the Dependency list looks good.

+1 from me assuming the above libssh reference was a mistake and it really
is only using libssh2 that is BSD licensed.

-Jeremiah


On Nov 12, 2025 at 8:12:01 AM, Christopher Bradford <[email protected]>
wrote:

> +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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