[OSM-legal-talk] Changeset Comments Copyright

[GITNE]

On 09/23/2020 at 02:19 AM Clifford Snow wrote:
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> On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 2:43 PM GITNE <gitne at gmx.de <mailto:gitne at gmx.de>> wrote:
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>     Hello OSMF Legal Team,
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>     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?
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> Can you be more specific? Where is the data being republished?

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.

Regards
GITNE