Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> writes: > Weaver <wea...@riseup.net> writes: > > > This Intellectual property rubbish is beginning to make me angry. What > > now? Are we expected, each and everyone of us, supposed to pay a > > stipend to some johnny-come-lately opportunist? > > > http://blog.joda.org/2011/10/today-time-zone-database-was-closed.html > > It's already back up and running at another site and a new release is > being planned. I suspect the lawsuit will blow over in short order.
That will be good, but we still need to make a lot of noise about this. It's ludicrous that any idiot with a lawyer can bring down a resource like the site hosting Olsen timezone data, even temporarily. -- \ “All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental.” | `\ —_Timequake_, Kurt Vonnegut | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87obxszgtx....@benfinney.id.au
