Donation to Apache Cassandra and ASF

[michaelsembwever]

Reassignment of copyright, where approved, and relicensing.
New repository will be github.com/apache/cassandra-nodejs-driver

To all past contributors,

We are working on donating this project to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) to be formally part of the Apache Cassandra project, specifically its Drivers subproject. ref: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-21090

Part of the process is to check with all past contributors, asking for your consent to move the codebase and transfer its copyright to the ASF (the license stays the same).

To provide consent a simple +1 comment on this pull request is all that is required.

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 covered by existing CLA on all past contributions. We are still going through the process of seeking consent from all contributors in good faith.

The collection of agreements and CLAs is being tracked in this document: https://ibm.box.com/s/lchbd15s17grmlmafyou8kprw2ehr0h9 ; and recorded in the NOTICE file.

Contributors:
@aaron-em
@aboudreault
@absurdfarce
@adamfaulkner
@adrianpike
@aholmberg
@alexott
@anoek
@BenBrostoff
@bitcloud
@BridgeAR
@BryanDonovan
@brycebaril
@bschoening
@chmac
@connor4312
@DanielSmedegaardBuus
@dreaf
@dsri
@emeliawilkinson24
@emr
@Gaen
@gd-rvemula
@guyellis
@guzmo
@gwicke
@jbisso
@jcrugzz
@jkingsman
@joao-r-reis
@jorgebay
@jsdir
@KishCom
@koriwi
@leitethiagon
@luccailliau
@lukashavrlant
@matchish
@MichaelErmer
@orourkedd
@otopsy
@peterjroberts
@ramikg
@razvanz
@rsp
@sbisbee
@sfeinste
@Shahor
@shinyaohira
@SiyaoIsHiding
@SoyYoRafa
@stamhankar999
@suguru
@theRemix
@thetsman
@tmitim
@tolbertam
@vineus
@weideng1

[michaelsembwever]

@SoyYoRafa
@stamhankar999
@suguru
@theRemix
@thetsman
@tmitim
@tolbertam
@vineus
@weideng1

[jorgebay]

Great news! +1

[alexott]

+1

[luccailliau]

+1

[emr]

+1

[ramikg]

+1

[Gaen]

+1

[Shahor]

+1

[bschoening]

+1

[anoek]

+1

[aboudreault]

+1

[KishCom]

+1

[sfeinste]

+1

[jbisso]

+1

[matchish]

+1

[stamhankar999]

+1

[jkingsman]

+1

[brycebaril]

+1

[BryanDonovan]

+1

[gwicke]

+1

[razvanz]

+1

[shinyaohira]

+1

[bitcloud]

+1 and merry xmas ;-)

[guzmo]

+1

[vineus]

+1 excellent news !

[peterjroberts]

+1

[tmitim]

+1

[aholmberg]

+1 long time coming! Thanks for ushering it along!

[adrianpike]

+1 ! 🎉

[BridgeAR]

+1

[jcrugzz]

Sounds good, feel free to have my sign off, cheers 👍

[joao-r-reis]

+1

[leitethiagon]

+1

[SiyaoIsHiding]

+1

[SiyaoIsHiding]

I'm writing to confirm that the license of this project's dependencies align with ASF's policy.
For nested dependencies in both distributed dependencies and dev dependencies

➜  nodejs-driver git:(licenses) npx license-checker --summary
├─ MIT: 113
├─ ISC: 20
├─ BSD-3-Clause: 11
├─ Apache-2.0: 6
├─ (Unlicense OR Apache-2.0): 1
├─ Python-2.0: 1
├─ (MIT OR WTFPL): 1
└─ (BSD-2-Clause OR MIT OR Apache-2.0): 1

The ones that need attention:

1. sinonjs, stating (Unlicense OR Apache-2.0) in package.json, has dual license of Unlicensed or Apache-2.0 in their LICENSE
2. argparse, stating Python-2.0 in their package.json, has - Python Software Foundation License Version 2 in their LICENSE
3. expand-template, stating (MIT OR WTFPL) in package.json, has MIT in their LICENSE
4. rc, stating (BSD-2-Clause OR MIT OR Apache-2.0) in package.json, has all three licenses in their repository

All packages above have licenses under Category A in the ASF policy, so the Node.js driver is all good in dependency license requirement.

[michaelsembwever]

Thank you @SiyaoIsHiding .

https://incubator.apache.org/ip-clearance/cassandra-nodejs-driver.html is looking complete but the vote, and this PR must be merged before the vote. I will merge this today.

[bitcloud]

There is actually a small typo and one error in that document ;-)

I think that should be cassandra-nodejs-driver
"This contribution will be placed in a stand-alone repository under the name cassandra-python-driver"

"This is oen of the drivers from DataStax"

[michaelsembwever]

thanks @bitcloud , fixed (takes an ~hour to rebuild the webpage from svn)

[michaelsembwever]

Vote for clearance now at: https://lists.apache.org/thread/7f4pm2mm1gqzc5mno3xdh4p5gl4ctxl9

[michaelsembwever]

NodeJS Driver ASF CLA collection.pdf