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The terms-of-use on every lemmy server I've seen would be considered underdeveloped by any lawyer I've ever met. Pragmatically:
Overall, I'd say most of the lemmyverse has underbaked policy frameworks. The de-facto results function ok pragmatically anyway for what lemmy does on its own. Any scraping/reuse of content from Lemmy would have to navigate a very complex, confusing, and ambiguous licensing landscape. Probably 10y from now, if the Lemmyverse continues to grow, TOU's will be more common and more clear about open-licensing content or leaving it all-rights-reserved but giving lemmy a perpetual irrevocable non-exclusive right to distribute whatever you post here (the latter of which is more or less what's implicitly happening today).
Yeah, this matches my impression. Hopefully it won't take 10 years! I was sort of thinking that an explicit statement of open license would encourage some people that it's worth putting their content here.
I suspect you'll find this is a double-edged sword. Open-licensing frameworks quite deliberately set out requirements for re-use, and are agnostic about who can do so. Many lemmings have strong feelings about who good actors and bad actors are, irrespective of whether they meet policy requirements. It's all fun and games until nazilemmy starts their own fediverse and seeds it with all our comments and posts as allowed by the open-license.
Personally, I'm a believer in policies that enable both usage you agree with and usage you disagree with on equal terms, but that's not a selling point to everyone in the lemmyverse. All rights reserved with a carve-out for lemmy to distribute offers less wiggle room for abuse (and use). I'm not real opinionated about terms, but I do agree more clarity would be useful.
That's a good point, but I think it's also another motivation to have some explicit statement of licensing: people who prefer a different license will know they should move to a different home instance.
Considering the duplication of content across instances and how other instances can interact with any particular magazine's content, it might make the most sense for every magazine to have its own content license in it's sidebar and posting/commenting to that magazine is enforced under the magazine's license