From 8eea5a431ff92ee30a6892e7a2add10effa8705d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Boten <223565+codeboten@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2026 11:03:42 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] opentelemetry-sdk: merge doesn't need a copy, dict
 already does this

Removing a call to .copy() in the merge function as it is unnecessary.

Signed-off-by: Alex Boten <223565+codeboten@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 opentelemetry-sdk/src/opentelemetry/sdk/resources/__init__.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/opentelemetry-sdk/src/opentelemetry/sdk/resources/__init__.py b/opentelemetry-sdk/src/opentelemetry/sdk/resources/__init__.py
index 09120f7149..d10f84345b 100644
--- a/opentelemetry-sdk/src/opentelemetry/sdk/resources/__init__.py
+++ b/opentelemetry-sdk/src/opentelemetry/sdk/resources/__init__.py
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ def merge(self, other: "Resource") -> "Resource":
         Returns:
             The newly-created Resource.
         """
-        merged_attributes = dict(self.attributes).copy()
+        merged_attributes = dict(self.attributes)
         merged_attributes.update(other.attributes)
 
         if self.schema_url == "":

From 239a893f4157fbdb8107f35ae41ba14a2b49a058 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Boten <223565+codeboten@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2026 11:06:53 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] changelog

Signed-off-by: Alex Boten <223565+codeboten@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 .changelog/5326.changed | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
 create mode 100644 .changelog/5326.changed

diff --git a/.changelog/5326.changed b/.changelog/5326.changed
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8ce1bead26
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changelog/5326.changed
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+opentelemetry-sdk: merge doesn't need a copy, dict already does this
\ No newline at end of file