Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Changeset Comments Copyright

2020-09-23 Thread Kathleen Lu via legal-talk
> What I meant by legal assessment is that I would like to know what OSMF's > layers > think of this. I would assume that the OSMF has some sort of legal > department, > like the people who have drafted some of the fundamental legal documents > (like > Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, Contributor

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Changeset Comments Copyright

2020-09-23 Thread GITNE
Hello Kathleen, thank you for your clarifications. On 09/23/2020 at 02:42 PM Kathleen Lu via legal-talk wrote: 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

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Changeset Comments Copyright

2020-09-23 Thread GITNE
Hello Christoph, On 09/23/2020 at 01:27 PM Christoph Hormann wrote: On Wednesday 23 September 2020, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: GITNE's point was not about changeset data, it was about changeset discussions. I agree there is no doubt that changesets are part of the geodatabase (at least for

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Changeset Comments Copyright

2020-09-23 Thread Clifford Snow
On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 12:49 AM GITNE wrote: > On 09/23/2020 at 02:19 AM Clifford Snow wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 2:43 PM GITNE mailto:gi...@gmx.de>> > wrote: > > > > Hello OSMF Legal Team, > > > > due to a quite troubling revelation by @SomeoneElse that changeset >

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Changeset Comments Copyright

2020-09-23 Thread Kathleen Lu via legal-talk
> > > why not remove “geo-database of the”? If someone added the geo-database, > maybe they wanted to exclude other databases or parts of the project? Are > there terms for diary posts? Are diary posts distributed under the ODbL? > > Well, updating the Contributor Terms would be an enormous

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Changeset Comments Copyright

2020-09-23 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone > On 23. Sep 2020, at 14:43, Kathleen Lu via legal-talk > wrote: > 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. looking at the terms, to my

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Changeset Comments Copyright

2020-09-23 Thread Matthew Woehlke
On 22/09/2020 17.43, GITNE wrote: 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

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Changeset Comments Copyright

2020-09-23 Thread Mateusz Konieczny via legal-talk
Sep 23, 2020, 15:16 by gi...@gmx.de: > On 09/23/2020 at 01:16 PM Frederik Ramm wrote: > >> >> On 23.09.20 12:34, GITNE wrote: >> >>> (for profit) which presumably is not covered either by the ODbL >>> >> >> Assuming that the data is covered by ODbL, then "These rights explicitly >> include

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Changeset Comments Copyright

2020-09-23 Thread GITNE
Hello Frederik, On 09/23/2020 at 01:16 PM Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, On 23.09.20 12:34, GITNE wrote: The issue is not availability of the data but Slack *republishing* content Surely Slack is doing that not out of their own decision, but because someone has instructed them (or their web

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Changeset Comments Copyright

2020-09-23 Thread Kathleen Lu via legal-talk
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

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Changeset Comments Copyright

2020-09-23 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 6:19 PM Andy Townsend 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

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Changeset Comments Copyright

2020-09-23 Thread Mateusz Konieczny via legal-talk
Sep 23, 2020, 12:18 by ajt1...@gmail.com: > On 23/09/2020 08:49, GITNE wrote: > >> Unfortunately, no. I do not use Slack. So, I cannot provide a specific link >> or >> something. What I know is that @SomeoneElse reported that Slack has an >> automated >> feed which pulls changesets comments

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Changeset Comments Copyright

2020-09-23 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi GITNE, if you feel that you have let your manners slip in changeset comments in the past, then just adding an apology (instead of starting a discussion about whether it is legal to republish your disrespectful comments) is always an option!

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Changeset Comments Copyright

2020-09-23 Thread Christoph Hormann
On Wednesday 23 September 2020, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > GITNE's point was not about changeset data, it was about changeset > discussions. I agree there is no doubt that changesets are part of > the geodatabase (at least for me), but for changeset comments it > seems the situation isn't so

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Changeset Comments Copyright

2020-09-23 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 23.09.20 12:34, GITNE wrote: > The issue is not availability of the data but Slack *republishing* > content Surely Slack is doing that not out of their own decision, but because someone has instructed them (or their web service) to do so? > (for profit) which presumably is not covered

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Changeset Comments Copyright

2020-09-23 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
Am Mi., 23. Sept. 2020 um 12:25 Uhr schrieb GITNE : > > > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/images/5/58/OSM_DB_Schema_2016-12-13.svg > Martin, please correct me if I am wrong but the database represented by the > schema you have pointed to is not what is actually publicly available, > that is >

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Changeset Comments Copyright

2020-09-23 Thread GITNE
On 09/23/2020 at 12:18 PM Andy Townsend wrote: On 23/09/2020 08:49, GITNE wrote: Unfortunately, no. I do not use Slack. So, I cannot provide a specific link or something. What I know is that @SomeoneElse reported that Slack has an automated feed which pulls changesets comments from OSM and

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Changeset Comments Copyright

2020-09-23 Thread GITNE
On 09/23/2020 at 11:22 AM Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: Am Mi., 23. Sept. 2020 um 11:02 Uhr schrieb Christoph Hormann mailto:chris_horm...@gmx.de>>: ... That changeset data is distributed separately from other parts of our database is not an argument against it being covered by the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Changeset Comments Copyright

2020-09-23 Thread Andy Townsend
On 23/09/2020 08:49, GITNE wrote: Unfortunately, no. I do not use Slack. So, I cannot provide a specific link or something. What I know is that @SomeoneElse reported that Slack has an automated feed which pulls changesets comments from OSM and republishes them on one of their channels. For

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Changeset Comments Copyright

2020-09-23 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
Am Mi., 23. Sept. 2020 um 11:02 Uhr schrieb Christoph Hormann < chris_horm...@gmx.de>: > ... That changeset data > is distributed separately from other parts of our database is not an > argument against it being covered by the contributor terms. Frequent > discussion in the OSM community that

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Changeset Comments Copyright

2020-09-23 Thread Christoph Hormann
On Wednesday 23 September 2020, GITNE wrote: > [...] However, I am unsure > whether this your opinion or legal assessment? Because a legal > assessment is actually what I would like to know. You will only ever get opinions here (often colored by interests and what people want to be true) and

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Changeset Comments Copyright

2020-09-23 Thread GITNE
On 09/23/2020 at 03:45 AM Kathleen Lu via legal-talk wrote: Hi GITNE, Can you also specify what you think the problem is? I am not sure if I can be more specific. So, I am just going to reword what I have written so that perhaps then things become clearer. In my understanding the Contributor

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Changeset Comments Copyright

2020-09-23 Thread GITNE
On 09/23/2020 at 02:19 AM Clifford Snow wrote: On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 2:43 PM GITNE mailto:gi...@gmx.de>> wrote: Hello OSMF Legal Team, due to a quite troubling revelation by @SomeoneElse that changeset comments are automatically republished by the third party private company