<story><title>Law suit shuts down Olson TZ database servers.</title><url>http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.time.tz/4133</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>apaprocki</author><text>I&apos;ve pulled the court documents via Bloomberg Law. The issue at hand is that Astrolabe owns copyright to the &quot;ACS Atlas&quot;, consisting of both the &quot;ACS International Atlas&quot; and the &quot;ACS American Atlas&quot;. Olson tz files specifically reference the &quot;ACS Atlas&quot; as a source for some tz data and allegedly incorrectly asserts that it is in the public domain. They sent a takedown notice in May 2011 and it was ignored. The FTP site is listed in the court filing and they are requesting a temporary injunction, a permanent injunction, and award of damages and attorney fees.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: The registered copyright they&apos;re referring to is here:
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<story><title>Law suit shuts down Olson TZ database servers.</title><url>http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.time.tz/4133</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dochtman</author><text>This is the guy who has been tirelessly maintaining the timezone database for the past 25 years. You might not know about this, but timezones change a &lt;i&gt;lot&lt;/i&gt;, so it&apos;s quite a bit of good work. If you use any Linux or OS X system today, chances are you&apos;re using the ADO timezone database.</text></comment>