+1
> On Nov 17, 2025, at 9:52 AM, Ekaterina Dimitrova <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> 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] <mailto:[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.
>>
