Thank you for the deep dive into the legalities. I aprreciate it.

Something I can't go along with is your final paragraph. Typing a sentence indicating what and why you did what you did is not beneath you nor are "you not required" to do it. True: There are no laws governing OSM but my experience reading the forum and seeing the list of reasons why users get blocked from editing by the DWG is that the general consensus among the active community is "please add meaningful comments (or don't edit at all)". So, please add meaningful comments.

Safe travels :)