[OSM-legal-talk] Changeset Comments Copyright

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

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> On 23. Sep 2020, at 14:43, Kathleen Lu via legal-talk <legal-talk at openstreetmap.org> 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 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:
“ 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”).”

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?

Cheers Martin 

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