Enable BIND cache server to resolve chinese domain name?

Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law froomkin at law.miami.edu
Tue Jul 5 17:11:23 UTC 2005


I don't think the root zone is sufficiently original to be 
legally copyrightable.  And we don't have database copyright in the US.

Even if it were copyrightable, it is made avaiable for download hence 
there is good reason to assume an implied license.

On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Peter Dambier wrote:

> william(at)elan.net wrote:

[in response to]

>> What I don't understand why for their project they don't just go ahead
>> and copy ICANN root zone as-is.
>> 
>
> Copyright reasons.
>

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