Chris Woodbury via tz said:
BIPM/IERS/EOC is a world standards AND treaty organization. The *information* it provides HAS to be public domain.
Sorry, but that's a very US-centric point of view. Everything the UK government does carries crown copyright and I can't just copy it without permission from their agents (HMSO, IIRC).
(Imagine licensing the meter. They're the same, exact, crew.)
The copyright on the treaty expired a while ago.
The question is really whether their comments are in the public domain. I would humbly suggest that that would require an explicit copyright statement.
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