[OSM-legal-talk] Changeset Comments Copyright

[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 republishes them on one of
>> their channels.
>>
> For completeness, this discussion spun out of one at
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/90157565 which in turn spun off from
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/90174987 .

If I may add that this discussion did not exactly spin out of any of these
changesets but rather Slack's practice has been brought to my attention in a
discussion on changeset 90157565.

> 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.

The issue is not availability of the data but Slack *republishing* content (for
profit) which presumably is not covered either by the ODbL nor the Contributor
Terms.

Regards
GITNE