[LEAPSECS] private smear goes public

[Michael Wouters]

According to this email,

http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2016-February/023209.html

the IERS will be adding a copyright notice allowing free use of the
leap second list.

Guess we just have to wait for the next one.

Cheers
Michael

On Sat, Dec 3, 2016 at 9:38 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
> --------
> In message <CANCZdfrLh8gRJohhLOg_XG7i=qwxX5nNMhk0w3fs7ZfPO5Y3oA at mail.gmail.com>, Warner Losh writes:
>
>>It's also all boilerplate. There's no creative content, so it's quite
>>likely it wouldn't even qualify for copyright protection. You can't
>>copyright facts, and that's all that differs from report to report.
>
> That is actually an interesting detail.
>
> The existence or non-existence of a leap second only becomes 'a
> fact' as a result of the writing of the bulletin by the director
> of the IERS.
>
> Anybody can write a Bulletin-C with/without all the boiler-plate,
> but that wont create or prevent the creation of a leap-second from
> being created.
>
> It is therefore not at all clear that Bulletin-C contains facts,
> as much as it creates facts.   As such it is probably much closer
> related to instruments of finance, which routinely create facts
> (financial obligations) on creation.  The canonical example: Writing
> a cheque.
>
> Either way, I don't think that matters for copyright purposes,
> because even if it is boilerplate you have created, you hold the
> copyright on it.  Warhol is your poster-boy there.
>
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