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I don't really see how GPL enters into it, as the problems are with laws, policies and regulatory bodies. The problems with the DNS system that I assume you're

I don't really see how GPL enters into it, as the problems are with laws, policies and regulatory bodies. The problems with the DNS system that I assume you're alluding to aren't due to the software or the software's license. It's the data the system runs on, and the people with the power to influence that data.

marquis 15y ago
Yes, that's understood, I realise I used the terminology incorrectly. I've just been reading up on DNS and regulatory control and now more deeply understand that DNS is an extremely difficult problem to solve so that it outside of overt disruption by both governments and rogue attacks. However I do hope to see in my lifetime a system implemented where DNS is no longer affected by a single country's politics. As bad_user comments above: "to change the world you don't need to change the laws. The alternative is to make them obsolete and technology has a habit of doing that". Back to Stallman: if anyone could help us imagine an truly democratic DNS system, I'm sure he could point us in the right direction.