<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><br><br><div dir="ltr">sent from a phone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On 23. Sep 2020, at 14:43, Kathleen Lu via legal-talk <legal-talk@openstreetmap.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">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. </div></blockquote><br><div><br></div><div>looking at the terms, to my layman’s view it seems unnecessary to qualify the term “contents of the OpenStreetMap project” with the limitation to geo-database. The whole sentence reads:</div><div>“<span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> 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”).”</span></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div><div>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?</div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div><div><font color="#222222" face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Roboto, Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Cheers Martin </span></font></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div></div></body></html>