Re: [OT?] Time-zone database down [was: Re: timezone buglet?]

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> Andrea Suisani wrote:
>> Speaking of Olson tz database, I've just stumbled across this post
>> and I thought it would be worthy to report it here:
>> http://blog.joda.org/2011/10/today-time-zone-database-was-closed.html

> I suppose there is nothing stopping them from attacking people who
> distribute the database, like Postgres, Red Hat, etc.

It seems pretty baseless to me: you can't copyright a collection of
facts.  I think we should do nothing pending a court decision.
        regards, tom lane