Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2020 13:49:13 -0600 From: Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca> Message-ID: <59a09579-b68a-d6a6-845d-214722d70dba@SystematicSw.ab.ca> | The suggestion was to adopt a PD licence The problem is, that while anyone can offer a licence for anything (possibly subject to fraud issues), doing so on something that you do not own is pointless, and ineffectual (at best). It has already been established I think (at least in the US) that the data part of tz* consists of facts, not subject to copyright, the form in which it is presented might be, but who exactly owns that? For the code, you'd have to (somehow) discover who created each specific piece, the compilation might be potentially subject to a separate copyright (in some jurisdictions) but anyone worried about that part would simply take the pieces, and put them back together themselves. So, Brian, if you believe that there should be a licence with the tz* code 7 data, why don't you offer one? You're as good a a source as just about anyone else I can think of. kre