Have significant changes been made since January? If not, IP clearance may not 
be required. The code as of January is still kosher Arrow IP, even if it’s been 
deleted from git. 

Julian

> On Jul 15, 2022, at 7:02 PM, Andy Grove <andygrov...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> datafusion-python was donated to the Apache Arrow project in April 2021 and
> was added to the arrow-datafusion repository [1].
> 
> datafusion-python was then removed from the repository in January 2022 [2]
> and added to a new repository in the datafusion-contrib organization
> outside of Arrow governance. I don't think there was a vote on this at the
> time, but maybe I missed it.
> 
> I would like to propose bringing the Python bindings back under Apache
> governance. This will require going through the IP clearance process again,
> unfortunately.
> 
> I propose that we move the code to its own repository, perhaps
> apache/arrow-datafusion-python?
> 
> I have filed an issue in the current repository to discuss this [3]
> 
> What do others think about this?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Andy.
> 
> [1] apache/arrow-datafusion#69
> <https://github.com/apache/arrow-datafusion/pull/69>
> 
> [2] apache/arrow-datafusion#1518
> <https://github.com/apache/arrow-datafusion/pull/1518>
> 
> [3] https://github.com/datafusion-contrib/datafusion-python/issues/58

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