According to this email, http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2016-February/023209.html
the IERS will be adding a copyright notice allowing free use of the leap second list. Guess we just have to wait for the next one. Cheers Michael On Sat, Dec 3, 2016 at 9:38 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp <p...@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote: > -------- > In message > <CANCZdfrLh8gRJohhLOg_XG7i=qwxx5nnmhk0w3fs7zfpo5y...@mail.gmail.com>, Warner > Losh writes: > >>It's also all boilerplate. There's no creative content, so it's quite >>likely it wouldn't even qualify for copyright protection. You can't >>copyright facts, and that's all that differs from report to report. > > That is actually an interesting detail. > > The existence or non-existence of a leap second only becomes 'a > fact' as a result of the writing of the bulletin by the director > of the IERS. > > Anybody can write a Bulletin-C with/without all the boiler-plate, > but that wont create or prevent the creation of a leap-second from > being created. > > It is therefore not at all clear that Bulletin-C contains facts, > as much as it creates facts. As such it is probably much closer > related to instruments of finance, which routinely create facts > (financial obligations) on creation. The canonical example: Writing > a cheque. > > Either way, I don't think that matters for copyright purposes, > because even if it is boilerplate you have created, you hold the > copyright on it. Warhol is your poster-boy there. > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 > p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 > FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe > Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. > _______________________________________________ > LEAPSECS mailing list > LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com > https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs