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<DIV>Edwin, some years ago there was talk of forming a sub-group of this mailing
list to tie down the loose ends to make this data register-able. Since all
tzcode is derived from public domain, the only copyrightable part of it would be
it, as a collective work. I dropped out of that group very early on, due
to my interest in marketing my private collection of public domain time
zone data on my own.</DIV>
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<DIV>To the best of my Intellectual Property Law knowledge, tzcode is
intrinsically in public domain, unless one of its contributors objects.
I've been on this list for well over a decade and can't imagine anyone
would.</DIV>
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<DIV>Cliff Hancuff</DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 4/28/2009 6:01:27 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
edwin@mavetju.org writes:</DIV>
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>For all
the years I have never worried about this, but today I got an email in<BR>my
mailbox asking me "Since this is vendor imported data, we would like
to<BR>register under which license this data is
distributed.".<BR><BR>Unfortunately I got not much info from Wikipedia, the
tzdata or the tzcode<BR>files. The tzcode says "This code is in the public
domain", but the tzdata<BR>doesn't have it, just a "This information is by no
means authoritative".<BR><BR>So... is there a license under which the tzdata
is
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