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

On Fri, 7 Oct 2011, Lester Caine 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 :( The TZ database maintenance is/was in the process of being put under the IANA as DAO is going on retirement soon. In that light, a new ML has already been set-up where the timezone database is now being maintained. New versions of the database will come out as usual, and we'll update PHP with those new database rules. cheers, Derick -- http://derickrethans.nl | http://xdebug.org Like Xdebug? Consider a donation: http://xdebug.org/donate.php twitter: @derickr and @xdebug