Arthur David Olson and Paul Eggert are being sued by the (new) owner of the copyright on one of the atlases that is much used as a source for the database, claiming that the database infringes on said copyright. The claim appears to be without merit, but it's got to court, and as an interim measure Olson has suspended the database maintenance mailing list and the FTP site from which it is distributed. Unknown how long this state of affairs will last. Links:
http://slashdot.org/story/11/10/06/1743226/ http://www.thedailyparker.com/PermaLink,guid,c5f28bae-4b9c-41ea-b7b7-8891ad63c938.aspx http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.time.tz/4133 http://dockets.justia.com/docket/massachusetts/madce/1:2011cv11725/139342/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database For the time being, I believe the best course of action in the DateTime::TimeZone world is to continue using, developing, disseminating, and supporting our software as before. There will merely be no imminent new version of the Olson database. We must watch to see whether this will be a protracted state of affairs, and if so see what consensus emerges about the future of the database. -zefram
