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Missing open-source contributor presents a dilemma when accepting their PR


I faced the following situation recently as a maintainer of a popular open-source project, and I wondered what to do. Situation A first-time contributor submits a PR to Spectre.Console, a Microsoft .Net Foundation open-source project.

I faced the following situation recently as a maintainer of a popular open-source project, and I wondered what to do. The contribution bot asks for confirmation the code change is copyright-free, but the contributor doesn’t respond. Additionally, the change is trivial and widely considered industry best practice, so it’s hard to see how anyone could enforce a copyright claim.

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