Astrolabe, claims to have purchased the rights to The American Atlas, from which the time zone database derived some of its data. According to the complaint the unauthorised reproduction of the Works have been published here, where the references to historic international time zone data is replete with references to the fact that the source for this information is, indeed, the ACS Atlas.
No one will deny that the book has been used as a key reference. But it will now go to court which will have to decide such strange questions like if data about when time zone rules changed throughout history protected under copyright and who owns it. What is going to cause techies problems is that Unix computers uses this database to set their clock to local time. If the troll shuts down the database project, as it is unlikely to get extra cash, systems administrators will have to change their time database.
Astrolabe, claims to have purchased the rights to The American Atlas, from which the time zone database derived some of its data. According to the complaint the unauthorised reproduction of the Works have been published at, where the references to historic international time zone data is replete with references to the fact that the source for this information is, indeed, the ACS Atlas.