Debian Bug report logs - #766736
geoip-database: outdated license information; more databases could be in main!

Package: geoip-database; Maintainer for geoip-database is Patrick Matthäi <pmatthaei@debian.org>; Source for geoip-database is src:geoip-database (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Jérémy Bobbio <lunar@debian.org>

Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 11:54:07 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Patrick Matthäi <pmatthaei@debian.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Report forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Patrick Matthäi <pmatthaei@debian.org>:
Bug#766736; Package geoip-database. (Sat, 25 Oct 2014 11:54:11 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Acknowledgement sent to Jérémy Bobbio <lunar@debian.org>:
New Bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to Patrick Matthäi <pmatthaei@debian.org>. (Sat, 25 Oct 2014 11:54:11 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

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Package: geoip-database

Hi!

According to <http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/legacy/geolite/>,
“The GeoLite databases are distributed under the Creative Commons
Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License”. This probably means that
debian/copyright should be updated.

But this also means that all GeoLite databases could be in
geoip-database and that geoip-database-contrib could be removed from the
archive. Sounds like a good news, or?

Thanks!
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Reply sent to pmatthaei@debian.org:
You have taken responsibility. (Mon, 27 Oct 2014 16:21:13 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Notification sent to Jérémy Bobbio <lunar@debian.org>:
Bug acknowledged by developer. (Mon, 27 Oct 2014 16:21:14 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Message #10 received at 766736-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

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Am 25.10.2014 um 13:51 schrieb Jérémy Bobbio:
> Package: geoip-database
> 
> Hi!
> 
> According to <http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/legacy/geolite/>,
> “The GeoLite databases are distributed under the Creative Commons
> Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License”. This probably means that
> debian/copyright should be updated.
> 
> But this also means that all GeoLite databases could be in
> geoip-database and that geoip-database-contrib could be removed from the
> archive. Sounds like a good news, or?

No, because there is no way to build the databases from source (geoip 1
api). So that makes the databases not DFSG-free.

.. but I just get patches so that we may also build the city and ASN
database ;) Working on it


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Debian Bug report logs - #766736 geoip-database: outdated license information; more databases could be in main!

Debian Bug report logs - #766736
geoip-database: outdated license information; more databases could be in main!