Re: [ASLE] "TZ database" cerrada por líos legales

El 7 de octubre de 2011 10:34, Edwin Boza <ebozag(at)gmail(dot)com> escribió:

> Acabo de leer que la base de datos TZ (con información sobe las zonas
> horarias) tiene problemas legales que han llevado a un cierre al menos
> temporal:
>

Copyright para las zonas horarias?! esto es el colmo, es absurdo! se los
acusa de ¡distribución ilegal de información!

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algunas listas y a los demandantes (Astrolabe).

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Tomado de wikipedia.org:*

The tz database is used for time zone processing and conversions in many
computer software systems, including:

- BSD <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Software_Distribution>-derived
systems, including FreeBSD <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD>,
NetBSD<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetBSD>,
OpenBSD <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenBSD>, DragonFly
BSD<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DragonFly_BSD>,
and Mac OS X <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X>;
- the GNU C Library <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_C_Library> and
systems that use it, including GNU <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU>,
most Linux distributions<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distributions>,
BeOS <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeOS>,
Haiku<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku_%28operating_system%29>,
Nexenta OS <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexenta_OS>, and
Cygwin<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygwin>
;
- System V Release 4
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_V_Release_4>-derived
systems, such as
Solaris<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_%28operating_system%29>and
UnixWare <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UnixWare>;
- AIX <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_AIX_%28operating_system%29> 6.1
and later[20]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database#cite_note-Olsontzsetup-19>
[21] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database#cite_note-AIXTZ-20>(earlier
versions of AIX, starting with AIX 5.2, include zoneinfo
[22] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database#cite_note-AIXLinuxinfo-21>,
for support of third-party applications such as
MySQL<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySQL>
[23] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database#cite_note-22>, but do not
use it themselves[22]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database#cite_note-AIXLinuxinfo-21>
[24] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database#cite_note-AIXwiki-23>);
- several other Unix <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix> systems,
including Tru64 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tru64>, and
UNICOS<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNICOS>/mp
(also IRIX <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRIX>, still maintained but no
longer shipped);
- OpenVMS <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenVMS>;
- the Java Runtime
Environment<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Runtime_Environment>since
release 1.4 (2002);
- the Perl <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl> modules
DateTime::TimeZone<http://search.cpan.org/dist/DateTime-TimeZone/>and
DateTime::LeapSecond <http://search.cpan.org/dist/DateTime/> since 2003;
- PHP <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP> releases since 5.1.0 (2005);
- the Python<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_%28programming_language%29>module
pytz <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pytz/2010o>;
- the .NET Framework <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET_Framework> module
zoneinfo <http://zoneinfo.codeplex.com/>;
- Oracle <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Database> releases since
10g (2004);[25] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database#cite_note-24>
- PostgreSQL <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostgreSQL> since release 8.0
(2005);
- embedded software such as the firmware used in IP clocks.

The Olson timezone IDs are also used by the Unicode Common Locale Data
Repository <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Locale_Data_Repository>(CLDR)
and International
Components for Unicode<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Components_for_Unicode>(ICU).
For example, the CLDR Windows → Tzid table maps Microsoft Windows
time zone IDs to the standard Olson
names.[26]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database#cite_note-25>

--
Jonathan.