Martin Burnicki <martin.burnicki@meinberg.de> wrote:
The NIST file doesn't contain a copyright information, neither. So where does the idea come from that the NIST file is in the public domain, but the IERS file isn't?
I believe works funded by the US federal government are public domain by default. The easy solution to this problem is for the TZ project to produce its own list of leap seconds rather than distributing someone else's. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <dot@dotat.at> http://dotat.at/ German Bight, Humber, Thames, Dover, Wight, Portland, Plymouth: Variable 4, becoming south or southwest 4 or 5, increasing 6 or 7 later except in Dover. Slight or moderate, occasionally rough except in Thames, Dover and Wight. Isolated wintry showers, rain later in Plymouth. Good, occasionally moderate.