An Oracle Database backend was originally contributed to PowerDNS in
2002 by Stefan Arentz.

A new version amounting to a complete rewrite was contributed in 2011 by
Maik Zumstrull <maik@zumstrull.net>, then at the Steinbuch Centre for
Computing <http://www.scc.kit.edu/> at the Karlsruhe Institute of
Technology <http://www.kit.edu/>.

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Licensing

Any contributions submitted to PowerDNS.COM BV by Maik Zumstrull / SCC are
released under the conditions of the MIT license. Note that additional or
different licensing terms may apply to code as redistributed by
PowerDNS.COM BV. The terms of the license are found below.

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The MIT License

Copyright (c) 2010-2011
  Maik Zumstrull
  Steinbuch Centre for Computing
  Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

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