On 7 October 2011 21:17, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> writes: >> Andrea Suisani wrote: >>> Speaking of Olson tz database, I've just stumbled across this post >>> and I thought it would be worthy to report it here: >>> http://blog.joda.org/2011/10/today-time-zone-database-was-closed.html > >> I suppose there is nothing stopping them from attacking people who >> distribute the database, like Postgres, Red Hat, etc. > > It seems pretty baseless to me: you can't copyright a collection of > facts. I think we should do nothing pending a court decision.
It's ironic that they're attacking those using these facts when their business is selling fiction poorly disguised as fact. -- Thom Brown Twitter: @darkixion IRC (freenode): dark_ixion Registered Linux user: #516935 EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
