Sep 22, 2020, 23:43 by gi...@gmx.de: > Hello OSMF Legal Team, > > due to a quite troubling revelation by @SomeoneElse that changeset comments > are > automatically republished by the third party private company Slack, I would > appreciate if you could share your legal assessment of this situation. More > specifically, what is the copyright status of changeset comments and which > OSMF > document or agreement covers changeset comments? > > As far as I can tell no document covers changeset comments either explicitly > nor > implicitly. The Contributor Terms state that “…contributing data and/or any > other content (collectively, “Contents”) to the geo-database of the > OpenStreetMap project (the “Project”)” is explicitly limited to contributions > to > the geo-database (map database). As far as I can tell changeset comments are > not > part of the OSM's geo-database. > As far as I can tell changeset comments are part of the OSM's geo-database. "Thank you for your interest in contributing data and/or any other content (collectively, “Contents”) to the geo-database of the OpenStreetMap project (the “Project”)" And yes, "any other content" clearly includes changeset description, notes, note comments, changeset comments and so on. Though I am unsure about status of anonymous notes, formerly possible anonymous note comments and about user diary entries. note: I am not a lawyer
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