Re: Olson database legal woes

[email protected] ("David E. Wheeler")
Newsgroups perl.datetime
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mar 4, 2012, at 4:46 AM, Zefram wrote:

> I wrote (back in October):
>> Arthur David Olson and Paul Eggert are being sued
> 
> Having just noticed this thread in my mail archive, I'm reminded that I
> ought to post an update for <[email protected]> readers.  The suit was
> recently dismissed, voluntarily by the plaintiff, on the grounds that it
> was completely unfounded.  Olson and Eggert have rejoined the database
> maintenance mailing list, which is remaining at its new home supplied
> by IANA.  Robert Elz is still releasing new versions of the database,
> but the coordination job may well shift back to Olson imminently.
> Essentially, the episode is over.

\o/

And sanity prevails.

Best,

David
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