> 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.
