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With respect to the CLA, I am making this contribution on behalf of my organization, D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P. In 2018 we signed a CLA associated with the bugs.python.org usernamekatz.

@li-dan You'll need to sign the CLA individually as well.

Thanks for taking a look at this,@lysnikolaou.

Is there any documentation on the CLA policy? My organization is making this contribution and holds rights to the contribution, so it doesn't seem correct that I should be involved in the licensing process as an individual.

I'm not sure what the correct thing to do here is.@ambv You probably know best. Could you please address@li-dan's concerns?

All commit authors signed the Contributor License Agreement.

@li-dan With the current CLA setup you'll also need to sign an individual CLA. Please could you do that?

See alsohttps://www.python.org/psf/contrib/ which says "The PSF is now asking all past and future contributors to sign a Contributor Agreement."

Thank you.

I'm happy to sign the CLA in my personal capacity, but it would not be able to apply to this PR. My organization is licensing this contribution, and as an individual, I do not have rights to grant a license to the contribution. Is that okay?

@li-dan

Yes, this is okay.

We are not aware of the geographical jurisdiction of each particular company and employee. We are also not privy to their particular contract and details about the form of their collaboration. Laws differ between all those cases. Therefore, we always require individual CLAs.

In the case where a blanket organizational CLA already covers a company, and the copyright of a PR is already legally assigned to the company, this is a no-op legally. Such a contributor isn't granting any additional licenses that weren't already granted. But even in this case, it allows Python to track which employees are contributors. It also covers the case where a contributor deliberately or otherwise uses a private email address when authoring their commits.

Thanks for the background,@ambv. I am consulting with my employer on how we want to proceed.

I have signed the individual CLA.

Thank you!

@lysnikolaou Does this need backporting?