GITNE, I don't know what distinction you are drawing between opinion and legal assessment. I cannot give you legal advice as I am not your lawyer, but my legal opinion, based on the terms of the Contributor Agreement, is that changeset comments are part of OSM's geo-database. Note that the terms say: "OSMF agrees that it may only use or sub-license Your Contents as part of a database and only under the terms of one or more of the following licences:.." So if changeset comments did not count as part of the geo-database, OSM would not have rights to use them, which would be contrary to the purposes of the Contributor Terms. -Kathleen
On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 5:34 AM Eugene Alvin Villar <sea...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 6:19 PM Andy Townsend <ajt1...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> For those unfamiliar with it, the OSM US' Slack instance has a >> "feed-changeset-comments" channel which shows new changeset discussion >> comments shortly after they are added. There are lots of other ways of >> getting at that data as well of course - including on osm.org itself. >> > > To provide some context, this Slack channel is simply forwarding the > contents of an Atom feed generated by Pascal Neis here: > http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/osm-discussions?c=United States > > IANAL, but from an intellectual property point of view, I think Pascal > creating RSS/Atom feeds of changeset comments per country falls under fair > use/fair dealing. And there is a whole ecosystem of tools that process and > consume RSS/Atom feeds, one of which is an integration in Slack was setup > by someone so that comments on changesets in the United States are more > visible to the people who are in the OSM US Slack. > > ~Eugene > _______________________________________________ > legal-talk mailing list > legal-talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk >
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