Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:55727 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 19099 invoked from network); 7 Oct 2011 11:20:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 7 Oct 2011 11:20:32 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=lester@lsces.co.uk; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=lester@lsces.co.uk; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain lsces.co.uk from 213.123.26.188 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: lester@lsces.co.uk X-Host-Fingerprint: 213.123.26.188 c2beaomr10.btconnect.com Received: from [213.123.26.188] ([213.123.26.188:23672] helo=mail.btconnect.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id CA/00-18506-D70EE8E4 for ; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 07:20:30 -0400 Received: from host81-138-11-136.in-addr.btopenworld.com (EHLO _10.0.0.4_) ([81.138.11.136]) by c2beaomr10.btconnect.com with ESMTP id EPP76073; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 12:18:38 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <4E8EE00D.604@lsces.co.uk> Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2011 12:18:37 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20110907 Firefox/6.0.2 SeaMonkey/2.3.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: PHP Developers Mailing List References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mirapoint-IP-Reputation: reputation=Fair-1, source=Queried, refid=tid=0001.0A0B0303.4E8EE00E.0019, actions=tag X-Junkmail-Premium-Raw: score=7/50, refid=2.7.2:2011.10.7.101218:17:7.586, ip=81.138.11.136, rules=__MOZILLA_MSGID, __HAS_MSGID, __SANE_MSGID, __USER_AGENT, __MIME_VERSION, __TO_MALFORMED_2, __BOUNCE_CHALLENGE_SUBJ, __BOUNCE_NDR_SUBJ_EXEMPT, __SUBJ_ALPHA_END, __CT, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN, __CTE, __ANY_URI, __URI_NO_MAILTO, __PHISH_PHRASE2, __CP_URI_IN_BODY, BODYTEXTP_SIZE_3000_LESS, BODY_SIZE_1000_1099, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY, RDNS_GENERIC_POOLED, BODY_SIZE_5000_LESS, RDNS_SUSP_GENERIC, RDNS_SUSP, BODY_SIZE_2000_LESS, BODY_SIZE_7000_LESS X-Junkmail-Status: score=10/50, host=c2beaomr10.btconnect.com X-Junkmail-Signature-Raw: score=unknown, refid=str=0001.0A0B0202.4E8EE07A.018E:SCFSTAT14830815,ss=1,fgs=0, ip=0.0.0.0, so=2010-07-22 22:03:31, dmn=2009-09-10 00:05:08, mode=multiengine X-Junkmail-IWF: false Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Time zone database shut down by legal threat From: lester@lsces.co.uk (Lester Caine) Derick Rethans wrote: >> > FYI:http://blog.joda.org/2011/10/today-time-zone-database-was-closed.html >> > >> > This could impact PHP as well since it bundles the database. > We don't actually bundle the database as rules. Instead, we bundle a > compiled version of that, and the original rules do not remain in what > we bundle. Not sure whether that means it impacts us or not, and I will > not be making any comments about that. Unfortunately if the courts rule that the data is not public domain, then any use of it would be blocked and liable to license claims? It is the current block on making any future updates to the data which is a problem that will need to be addressed at some point? So ignoring the problem is not really practical :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php