Oct. 7, 2011
8:53 a.m.
On Oct 7, 2011, at 1:24 AM, Clive D.W. Feather wrote:
Robert Elz said:
All I know of the lawsuit is what jhawk's message indicated - eventually I assume we'll find out what trademark or patent that someone believes is being infringed (a little hard to believe either, but who knows...)
It's a copyright case. The claim is that the tz database copies Astrolabe's books and database.
Books? Paul Eggert's comments state that Shanks' atlases were used as sources for some of the rules at some points in the database's history; whether that's "copying" I'll leave to a lawyer to answer. Database? As far as I know, neither Paul nor any other contributor ever looked at any of the non-dead-tree databases from ACS or Astrolabe.