Future time zone home

[Tony Finch]

On Thu, 21 Oct 2010, Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] wrote:
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>         http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-lear-iana-timezone-database-00

I think this could be a good solution to the problem.

A few suggestions:

Section 5: Maintenance and Distribution of Reference Code

   Currently the maintainer of the TZ database also maintains reference
   code.  This software is currently distributed under the BSD license.

Apart from three files, the current tzcode distribution is public domain.
There is no single BSD licence so this statement is ambiguous. In fact the
licence on the three special files is more like a MIT licence.

Section 6 is supposed to be about the database but contains a misplaced
comment about the code's licence which correctly contradicts section 5.

There should be a section on the licensing of contributions, since the TZ
licence is more liberal than the IETF licence.

Tony.
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