On Mar 2, 2012, at 12:41 AM, Alan Barrett wrote: > On Fri, 02 Mar 2012, Jukka Ruohonen wrote: >>> tzcode2012b and tzdata2012b ahve been released. >>> We have updated to tzdata2012b. >> >> What was the resolution with the patent issues and whatnot? > > The lawsuit was withdrawn after it became obvious that the > plaintiffs had no valid case. The EFF got involved with the > defence, and here's their collection of links to relevant > documents: <https://www.eff.org/cases/astrolabe-v-olson>.
And there were never any patent issues. It was a bad copyright case. Warner
