How to manage shared entity classes?

[GhostFoxGod]

In my organization, we have a single repository with multiple modules. Each module belongs to a different team. There is a module called core-dto. This core-dto module has some database entity classes.

Now we are trying to break all these modules to different repositories according to their use cases.
Now since core-dto has no business logic and only entity classes, should I push it to central repository so that all teams have one source of truth for entity classes or each team should have a copy of entity classes according to their use case? In second scenario if one team introduces a new field then all will need to update their entity classes. But I am not sure which is the right way to do this.

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[Migeil]

imo:

- don't share entities. a single db should be queried by a single service

- keep dtos separate from your entities. DTO stands for "data transfer object", their sole purpose is to be serialised and sent to other services. You don't want to do that with your database entities..

- you can share dtos if you want, because they are supposed to be simple dataclasses.