April 7, 2017
8:16 p.m.
On Apr 7, 2017, at 3:22 PM, Paul Eggert <eggert@CS.UCLA.EDU> wrote:
On 04/06/2017 09:28 PM, Chris Woodbury wrote:
Where it the copyright notice to which you refer above?
I didn't refer to any copyright notice, as there is no such notice for the IERS file <https://hpiers.obspm.fr/iers/bul/bulc/ntp/leap-seconds.list>. So by U.S. law (which now follows the 1988 Berne Convention) the file is copyrighted and cannot be reproduced without permission. See, for example:
There's a common confusion around the Internet that stuff posted on the Internet is in the public domain, unless a copyright notice is present. This is entirely false and has been false for decades. paul