<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
</head>
<body>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Sep 22, 2020, 23:43 by gitne@gmx.de:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>Hello OSMF Legal Team,<br></div><div><br></div><div>due to a quite troubling revelation by @SomeoneElse that changeset comments are<br></div><div>automatically republished by the third party private company Slack, I would<br></div><div>appreciate if you could share your legal assessment of this situation. More<br></div><div>specifically, what is the copyright status of changeset comments and which OSMF<br></div><div>document or agreement covers changeset comments?<br></div><div><br></div><div>As far as I can tell no document covers changeset comments either explicitly nor<br></div><div>implicitly. The Contributor Terms state that “…contributing data and/or any<br></div><div>other content (collectively, “Contents”) to the geo-database of the<br></div><div>OpenStreetMap project (the “Project”)” is explicitly limited to contributions to<br></div><div>the geo-database (map database). As far as I can tell changeset comments are not<br></div><div>part of the OSM's geo-database.<br></div></blockquote><div>As far as I can tell changeset comments are part of the OSM's geo-database.<br></div><div><br></div><div>"Thank you for your interest in contributing data and/or any other content<br></div><div>(collectively, “Contents”) to the geo-database of the OpenStreetMap project (the “Project”)"<br></div><div><br></div><div>And yes, "any other content" clearly includes changeset description, notes,<br></div><div>note comments, changeset comments and so on.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Though I am unsure about status of anonymous notes, formerly possible<br></div><div>anonymous note comments and about user diary entries.<br></div><div><br></div><div>note: I am not a lawyer<br></div> </body>
</html>