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

hi Lester, See the blog post itself for more information. They create a mailing list to create an alternative database but not to argue about the legal case. I would suggest to discuss things there instead. Cheers, On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk> wrote: > 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 > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org