EFF Wins Protection For Time Zone Database

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday February 23, 2012 @01:08AM from the it's-about-time dept.

First time accepted submitter TempestRose writes "The trials and tribulations of the time zone database sued by an astrology software company are finally over. From the article: 'The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is pleased to announce that a copyright lawsuit threatening an important database of time zone information has been dismissed. The astrology software company that filed the lawsuit, Astrolabe, has also apologized and agreed to a 'covenant not to sue' going forward, which will help protect the database from future baseless legal actions and disruptions.'"

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Astrolabe Needs ... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-02-23 01:11 · Score: 5, Funny

Astrolube ... 'cuz they just got screwed
Re:whooo by DZign · 2012-02-23 01:18 · Score: 5, Funny

they probably read in the stars they weren't going to win :)

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Re:You know of course... by Calsar · 2012-02-23 02:26 · Score: 5, Funny

...that Astrolabe could not claim to hold copyright on facts such as when the sun rises. What TFA fails to state is that this is because Apples owns the patent on it.
I thought Oracle owned all the Sun patents.