Re: Serious problem with geoip - databases could not be build from source

2009-08-27 Thread Patrick Matthäi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Patrick Matthäi schrieb: > Hello lists and maxmind, > > (please CC me in your replys, I am not subscribed to debian-legal@ and > debian-devel@, thanks). I am now, so ignore it. :) . > But I have got a serious problem with it: > 1) upstream deli

RE: Serious problem with geoip - databases could not be build from source

2009-08-26 Thread Patrick Matthäi
Le mercredi 26 août 2009 à 11:09 +0200, Bjørn Mork a écrit : > You are aware of the GPLv3 licensed database at > http://software77.net/geo-ip/ ? >Woohoo, nice. Combine this with Julien’s idea to implement support for a new >database format, and I think you have the correct solution. And who po

Re: Serious problem with geoip - databases could not be build from source

2009-08-26 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 26 août 2009 à 11:09 +0200, Bjørn Mork a écrit : > You are aware of the GPLv3 licensed database at > http://software77.net/geo-ip/ ? Woohoo, nice. Combine this with Julien’s idea to implement support for a new database format, and I think you have the correct solution. Cheers, -- .

Re: Serious problem with geoip - databases could not be build from source

2009-08-26 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 26, "Giacomo A. Catenazzi" wrote: > 5) We create a new free database. > I don't think is too difficult, and I think we would have support Sure, a database which can associate an IP address with a country 90% of the time will be easy to create and if widely used in a few years maybe will be

Re: Serious problem with geoip - databases could not be build from source

2009-08-26 Thread Bjørn Mork
"Giacomo A. Catenazzi" writes: > 5) We create a new free database. > > I don't think is too difficult, and I think we would have support > also at high level. > But it needs a lot of communication works: the term of service of > IANA and the RIRs (Regional Internet Registry) forbid to spider and

Re: Serious problem with geoip - databases could not be build from source

2009-08-26 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Patrick Matthäi wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 MJ Ray schrieb: Patrick Matthäi wrote: GeoIP is a quite usefull library for geolocation. It has got a stable ABI/API and upstream is normaly very helpfull with patches and issues. [...] Currently I see only three options:

Re: Serious problem with geoip - databases could not be build from source

2009-08-25 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Patrick Matthäi Cc list severly trimmed. | Currently I see only three options: | 1) upstream decides to open his build system | 2) we move it to contrib with all consequences | 3) we leave it as it is It looks trivial to reverse-engineer. From just looking at it, it looks like a memory dump

Re: Serious problem with geoip - databases could not be build from source

2009-08-25 Thread Julien BLACHE
MJ Ray wrote: Hi, > 4) we deduce the build system by looking at the CSVs and how the > library uses the binary dat files, then junk the upstream-built > dat files. I've no idea if this is feasible, but it's another > option. 5) Add support for an all-new database format. If upstream doesn't w

Re: Serious problem with geoip - databases could not be build from source

2009-08-25 Thread Patrick Matthäi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 MJ Ray schrieb: > Patrick Matthäi wrote: >> GeoIP is a quite usefull library for geolocation. >> It has got a stable ABI/API and upstream is normaly very helpfull with >> patches and issues. > [...] >> Currently I see only three options: >> 1) upstrea

Re: Serious problem with geoip - databases could not be build from source

2009-08-25 Thread MJ Ray
Patrick Matthäi wrote: > GeoIP is a quite usefull library for geolocation. > It has got a stable ABI/API and upstream is normaly very helpfull with > patches and issues. [...] > Currently I see only three options: > 1) upstream decides to open his build system > 2) we move it to contrib with all c