Ben Finney <ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au> writes: > 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.
ado took the site down voluntarily (almost certainly), so there's really nothing to protest other than the concept of damages for ongoing infringment after notification, about which making a lot of noise will do precisely zero. It looks like the tz database was an innocent bystander in a legal fight between two other companies and the whole thing will blow over once that's sorted out and the actual nature of the tz database was established. All you're going to accomplish at this point by making a lot of noise is to make life even more difficult for ado, so please don't. Please remember that he was using a server at his job for this (a US government server, no less), so he's going to be maximally careful about not turning this into a problem for his employers. Once all the details are out and the case is either resolved or there's some clear idea how we can help is the time to make noise if it's appropriate then. Right now, lawyers from the IETF are already involved and the EFF has already been notified, and those of us who are well-meaning but don't know how to properly handle the specific legal situation should really just be quiet and let the lawyers handle it. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- 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/87liswwf91....@windlord.stanford.edu