[Rd] tzone DB lawsuit Implications for R-project?

[Joris Meys]

And an article with some extra information on it:

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2011-10-16/time-zone-database-ICANN/50793890/1

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Prof Brian Ripley
<ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> To put this nest-poking to rest, see
> http://www.iana.org/time-zones
>
>
> On Fri, 7 Oct 2011, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>
>> Not as yet.  Many much bigger users than us (almost all Unix-alike OSes,
>> Java, Tcl, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, ...) have more resources to
>> investigate.
>>
>> Note that we only use the database on Windows, and only because OS
>> services are woefully inadequate on that platform: we could go back to using
>> those services ....
>>
>> On Fri, 7 Oct 2011, Jeff Ryan wrote:
>>
>>> Does anyone from core have a comment on the implications for the
>>> R-project on this:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/07/unix_time_zone_database_destroyed/
>>>
>>> Given the inclusion of the TZ database with R as well as the
>>> functionality used by R, is this something that the FSF is looking at yet?
>>>
>>> Best,Jeff
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>>>
>>
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