Thank you both, Mick and Bret, for the detailed explanation and for all the work done. - sha checked - licenses checked - dependencies checked - IP Clearance looks good to me
+1 It was explained in the cpp-driver donation thread, but it's good we have > it referenced in this thread too :-) Indeed, too many threads on @dev and while the two donations are related, each one is a separate piece of work. Best regards, Ekaterina На пн, 17.11.2025 г. в 3:20 Mick <[email protected]> написа: > > > All consent from original authors of the donation, and tracking of > > collected CLAs, is found in: > > As per the notice[1], some non-datastax people did not respond. How do > we handle that? (Sorry if that was already explained somewhere but I > missed it) > > > It was explained in the cpp-driver donation thread, but it's good we have > it referenced in this thread too :-) > > https://lists.apache.org/thread/m9ovttxz5hyy9yssmywzpp96jp0wyv63 > > Specifically the paragraph: "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." > > Even more pertinent here: as was stated in the donation PRs that changed > the copyright and collected the consent; all the work was already entirely > copyrighted to DataStax (ref the copyright header in every file). The PRs > made mention of it with this text: "Normally we seek past contributors to > sign the ASF's ICLA when donating IP over to an Apache project. In this > situation we don't need to as the whole codebase is already copyright to > DataStax… We are still going through the process of seeking consent from > all contributors in good faith." > > https://github.com/datastax/python-driver/pull/1254#issuecomment-3241268062 > https://github.com/datastax/cpp-driver/pull/573#issuecomment-3239426600 > > And you can see this nuance between copyright history versus respecting > project contributors in the text of each NOTICE file now. > >
