On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 11:47:54AM +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
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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...)
Julie C Molloy for Astrolabe Inc seems to be alleging that *copyright* is being infringed. I think this claim is based on copyright in the ACS Atlas (by Shanks). You can find a PDF scan of the Astrolabe complaint at: http://www.docstoc.com/docs/98231225/ACS-Atlas There are stories and reactions at: http://slashdot.org/story/11/10/06/1743226/ http://www.thedailyparker.com/CommentView,guid,c5f28bae-4b9c-41ea-b7b7-8891a... http://blog.joda.org/2011/10/today-time-zone-database-was-closed.html One of the slashdot story comments has a link to docstoc and another has a text version of the first 10 points of Astrolabe's complaint (pirodude, http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2463504&cid=37628932) -- ___________________________________________________________________________ David Keegel <djk@cyber.com.au> Cyber IT Solutions Pty. Ltd. http://www.cyber.com.au/~djk/ Linux & Unix Systems Administration