FWIW, I am investigating the geolite2 license situation with Red Hat. Thanks, Tom
On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 4:45 PM Dave Dykstra <d...@fnal.gov> wrote: > I see that currently Fedora rawhide gets new geolite2-*-YYYMMDD packages > (e.g. geolite2-city-20191217) each month in order to distribute the free > maxmind geo IP databases. Unfortunately, Maxmind just greatly tightened > down on the license for these data distributions and I think that Fedora > will no longer be able to distribute them. The databases may still be > downloaded for free, and they may be freely redistributed, but anybody > who does so must ensure that everybody that they distribute to updates > their database within 30 days after Maxmind updates them, and destroys > all old copies. Here's the blog entry where they announced the change, > late in December, effective the end of 2019, saying that they had to do > it because of privacy laws: > > https://blog.maxmind.com/2019/12/18/significant-changes-to-accessing-and-using-geolite2-databases/ > > Anybody may sign up for an account and free license key, but they have to > agree to The new End User License Agreement with the new stipulations. > https://www.maxmind.com/en/geolite2/eula > > I welcome any suggestions for good alternative sources of geo IP data > that doesn't have these kinds of restrictions and also believes they can > adhere to the privacy laws without requiring a license key. > > Dave > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org >
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