[OSM-talk] Signup page: Public Doman "what-this?" button broken

Simon Poole simon at poole.ch
Sun Oct 8 13:17:30 UTC 2017


As has been pointed out many times the whole thing is meaningless for a
multitude of reasons and simply should be removed (checkbox and text).

Simon


Am 08.10.2017 um 11:54 schrieb Sebastian Kürten:
> Hi,
>
> During sign up for an OSM account, the user is presented with the
> Contributor terms [1]. There's an additional checkbox "In addition to
> the above agreement, I consider my contributions to be in the Public
> Domain (what's this?)". The "what's this?" link points to the
> osmfoundation wiki[2]. However the page it points to has been moved
> several times, forcing the user to follow the redirect by clicking
> the redirection link, three times. I suggest we change that link to
> point to the current location[3].
>
> Best,
> Sebastian
>
> [1] https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/terms
> [2] http://wiki.osmfoundation.org/w/index.php?title=Licence/Why_would_I_want_my_contributions_to_be_public_domain&redirect=no
> [3] http://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Licence_and_Legal_FAQ/Why_would_I_want_my_contributions_to_be_public_domain
>
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