[tz] What license IANA is intending to distribute the timezone database under, BSD or public domain

Eliot Lear lear at cisco.com
Sat Dec 3 09:03:50 UTC 2011


No license changes.  The database and most of the code is in the public
domain, and the remainder of the code remains under the license that was
there before.

IANA is a distribution point.  See the latest draft for details.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-lear-iana-timezone-database-04

Eliot Lear


On 12/2/11 11:36 PM, Fake name wrote:
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> I hope this forum is the correct place to ask this question.
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> This question is intended for the people at IANA. I work for NetApp,
> and would like to know what license IANA is intending to distribute
> the timezone database under, BSD or public domain? BSD is referenced
> in some of the documentation, but in the past people were assuming
> this was in the public domain until the lawsuit occurred.
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> Thank you in advance for your answer.
>
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