Martin Burnicki said:
We (maybe I) could contact the IERS folks once more. Maybe they are just not aware that this copyright limits the files usage for TZ DB and/or tzdist.
On the other hand, the intention of the file should be to use it, or the information it provides, so why should there a problem extracting data from it using a script and feeding the result to TZ DB and/or tzdist?
There is no copyright issue in using the data; only the presentation in the IERS file is copyright.
Amusingly enough, the NIST file's expiration date disagrees with the IERS's.
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