Re: Re: Time zone database shut down by legal threat

Derick Rethans wrote:

FYI:http://blog.joda.org/2011/10/today-time-zone-database-was-closed.html This could impact PHP as well since it bundles the database. We don't actually bundle the database as rules. Instead, we bundle a compiled version of that, and the original rules do not remain in what we bundle. Not sure whether that means it impacts us or not, and I will not be making any comments about that.

Unfortunately if the courts rule that the data is not public domain, then any use of it would be blocked and liable to license claims? It is the current block on making any future updates to the data which is a problem that will need to be addressed at some point? So ignoring the problem is not really practical :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php