+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 > > > > > > > >
