[81971] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Enable BIND cache server to resolve chinese domain name?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School )
Fri Jul 8 15:27:08 2005
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 13:11:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law" <froomkin@law.miami.edu>
Reply-To: froomkin@law.tm
To: Peter Dambier <peter@peter-dambier.de>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <42CAAF2E.6000901@peter-dambier.de>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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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