I do not think there is zero progress as at least I’ve signed a SGA to
change all the files from Xiaomi to Apache License.
Zero files have been officially cleared. That allowed us to change the
Xiaomi/Pinecone copyrighted headers to Apache headers, but we still have
no idea who all contributed to those files
For the work on cleaning the license for other files, I could ask Peter and
Xiang Xiao again to let them be more aggressive on this task. It is the
long holiday in China, will ask them when they come back.
I think there are many of us who would participate. But there has to be
a key stakeholder and there has to be a dataset of contributor/copyright
information. If such a database were available, it would be easy for us
to clear individual files.
But in general, I prefer that someone in the community promise to take the
responsibility of this nasty task, not by an order from their manager. I
know this is not an easy work, and much boring than writing code for
engineers, but we need to do these type of works to drive the project
forward.
I have the same preference. But we need to be honest: That is not
going to happen.
