Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:55730 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 35933 invoked from network); 7 Oct 2011 13:56:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 7 Oct 2011 13:56:34 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=derick@php.net; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=derick@php.net; spf=unknown; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: unknown (pb1.pair.com: domain php.net does not designate 82.113.146.227 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: derick@php.net X-Host-Fingerprint: 82.113.146.227 xdebug.org Linux 2.6 Received: from [82.113.146.227] ([82.113.146.227:54239] helo=xdebug.org) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id AE/52-18506-0150F8E4 for ; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 09:56:33 -0400 Received: from localhost (xdebug.org [127.0.0.1]) by xdebug.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 98D9BDE13F; Fri, 7 Oct 2011 14:56:18 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 14:55:20 +0100 (BST) X-X-Sender: derick@whisky To: Lester Caine cc: PHP Developers Mailing List In-Reply-To: <4E8EE00D.604@lsces.co.uk> Message-ID: References: <4E8EE00D.604@lsces.co.uk> User-Agent: Alpine 2.02 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Time zone database shut down by legal threat From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans) On Fri, 7 Oct 2011, Lester Caine wrote: > 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 :( The TZ database maintenance is/was in the process of being put under the IANA as DAO is going on retirement soon. In that light, a new ML has already been set-up where the timezone database is now being maintained. New versions of the database will come out as usual, and we'll update PHP with those new database rules. cheers, Derick -- http://derickrethans.nl | http://xdebug.org Like Xdebug? Consider a donation: http://xdebug.org/donate.php twitter: @derickr and @xdebug