<quote who="Peter baker"> > sorry for going offtopic in my previous post
(this is kind of off-topic too...) > I'm interested in talking about making a domain name open and accessable > for everyone > > you told me the other night you can only GPL code. can't you call a > domain name a simple piece of code? It seems to give a computer some > instruction No, a domain name is nothing like a file with source code in it. You can't put a source code license on a domain name. A domain name is a scarce resource - there is only one, leased to you by the registrar. You can't copy it, modify it, distribute it, etc. If you want to make a domain name "open and accessible for everyone", you might be suggesting that anyone can create a subdomain and point it to their systems? That would require the owner of the domain name to configure domain records for each of those subdomain owners (there are plenty of these about, mostly called 'dynamic dns' services). It's a service, not something you can put a source code license on. - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2007: Sydney, Australia http://lca2007.linux.org.au/ "The postmodern version is: If all you have is duct tape, everything starts to look like a duct. Right. When's the last time you used duct tape on a duct?" - Larry Wall -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
